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An Open Letter to Darl McBride

Dear Mr. McBride: I guess push is coming to shove, huh? You finally got a court to order release of the AT&T code, so things are coming together a bit on that end. It's an important legal step, and one I'm sure you'll be glad to get over with, despite the crowing going on among those who see it as a victory for IBM ...

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Changing Ideas, Not Just Platforms

One of the bigger risks facing Linux is that explosive growth can destroy it because people who don't understand what it's for often install it simply as a Windows substitute, then discover that it isn't Windows and denounce it. The underlying issue here is that people can easily become captive to what they know. That happens in almost all areas of management, not just in technology.

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Baffled Certainties: Betraying Lintel for Wintel

I've been trying to imagine what the computing universe will look like in late 2008. The exercise not only highlighted the degree to which Linux has become the focal point for anti-Microsoft feeling, but also underscored the risk that the Linux community now faces from commercialization ...

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Open Source and the ‘Not Invented Here’ Syndrome

While watching CNN last week, I suffered one of those brain spasms that leave you holding an idea you can neither rationally assess nor forget about. I still can't assess the idea -- and I'm about to ask you for help on that -- but my attempts to do something with it did give me a deeper insight into the forces that made the Linux development process so successful...

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Goodbye SuSE, SuSE Goodbye

Last week, Novell announced its purchase of SuSE for $210 million -- $50 million of it direct from an IBM investment in newly issued convertible preferred stock. This deal raises two difficult questions: What's Novell up to, and why, if the people behind SuSE wanted to cash out, didn't they do an IPO? ...

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Selling Open-Source Solutions Against Office 2003

Paul Murphy, a LinuxInsider columnist, wrote and published The Unix Guide toDefenestration. Murphy is a 20-year veteran of the IT consulting industry, specializing in Unix and Unix-related management issues ...

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Man Bites Dog: Counting Linux In

If you sell products, measuring sales in terms of dollars during some reporting cycle -- like a quarterly or annual period -- makes perfect sense. It's dollars you're interested in, so dollars you measure. That's not true, however, for the open-source community. If you give away the product, then usage is the only measure that counts ...

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Rethinking the IBM-SCO Imbroglio

It would make it easy for everyone involved to see that this is fundamentally a simple contract dispute between SCO and IBM; allow AIX users to assess their exposure fairly; and allow the rest of us to get on with business. All of those sound good to me. How about you, Mr. McNealy? Paul Murphy, aLinuxInsider columnist, wrote and published The Unix Guide toDefenestration. Murphy is a 20-year veteran of the IT consultingindustry, specializing in Unix and Unix-related management issues. ...

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Wintel Monoculture, Lamarckian Biology and Bill Joy

Heroes are for boy scouts, but when Fortune Magazine ranan extended interview with Bill Joy under theheadline "Joy after Sun," I paid attention. After all, I'm writing this column using vi on a Sparc machine running Solaris ...

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Unbiased Opinion and the Future of Sun Micro

On most workday mornings, my e-mail contains a newsletter promising "unbiased opinion" -- an editorial oxymoron whose intent is probably to deny the presence of commercial advocacy or personal bigotry in the materials presented ...

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Incredulity, Reverse Bias and Mainframe Linux

Both VeriTest (formerly ZDlabs) on Microsoft's behalf and IBM have recently issued reports on running Ziff Davis Media's NetBench performance benchmark on mainframe Linux. The results are not directly comparable because IBM used a dedicated 16-CPU z900, while VeriTest was restricted to a two-CPU partition on a z900 ...

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