by Brian Prentice | March 31, 2010 | 19 Comments
Attention corporate IT customers – this blog post is for you. If you haven’t already had an “open-core” software vendor knocking on your door you probably will be soon. It’s important that you’re able to separate the hype from the substance when you hear them talk of their innovative business model. Open Core, if you’re [...]
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by Brian Prentice | March 23, 2010 | 8 Comments
Last week I had the pleasure to participate at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco (thank you Matt Asay). I ran into a lot of very smart and very committed people and had some deep and meaningful conversations about the future of open source. Regardless, I was left with a deep impression that [...]
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by Brian Prentice | March 14, 2010 | 2 Comments
Nick Wingfield wrote an entertaining piece for the Wall Street Journal describing the challenges facing Microsoft employees who have chosen to use an Apple iPhone. As Wingfiled points out, iPhones are in plain site on the Redmond campus. But that doesn’t sit well with many Microsoft executives who see this as little different than Coca [...]
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by Brian Prentice | March 9, 2010 | 2 Comments
I’m gobsmacked. Flummoxed even. Sometime I run across things I have to read a couple of times just to make sure I’m not hallucinating. A recent set of utterances by the International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) has been one such case. It appears that the IIPA have recommended that Indonesia be added to the US [...]
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by Brian Prentice | March 3, 2010 | 1 Comment
Let’s keep a couple of things in mind with the Apple v. HTC complaint. We’re not talking about some patent aggregation company, shopping a case against an IT provider in the East Texas district court, seeking big dollars for the infringement of some obtuse, questionable software patent that provides only ancillary capabilities. We’re talking about [...]
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