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Open Source

Building an Open Source Space Program (ISDC 05)

May 20, 2005

This afternoon at the International Space Development Conference, I made a presentation entitled “Building an Open Source Space Program.” The conference paper for his session can be found here (PDF) and the presentation can be found here (PPT) and here (PDF). I have provided a transcript of my discussion below. Your comments and feedback are [...]

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Open Source Space Development?

March 7, 2005

Over at FasterForward (the blog I write for my strategy consulting business) I’ve just posted a link
about the release of a PowerPoint draft of “Welcome to the Open Source Economy,” a discussion of the application of open source principles beyond software development. The document describes the essential features of the open source process and their [...]

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“Welcome to the Open Source Economy” Release 0.1

March 7, 2005

In keeping with the principle “Release Early and Release Often,” I have placed a draft of the PowerPoint version of “Welcome to the Open Source Economy,” my discussion of the application of open source principles beyond software development, on the site. The ideas continue to evolve, but I think that this document starts to capture [...]

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Python and Bit Torrent

February 6, 2005

Inspired by a press release from Nokia announcing the launch of the powerful Open Source Python programming language for the Series 60 Platform, allowing developers to create to execute Python commands and run Python scripts and applications on Series 60-based devices, James Enck muses that a little tinkering with Python and Bit Torrent might lead [...]

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RFID Adoption and the Open Source Economy

February 6, 2005

Now, here is a great example of the dilemma that many companies feel they are facing as they struggle to adopt new collaborative technologies. ComputerWeekly.com reports that many early adopters of RFID are reluctant to share information about their deployment experience, potentially holding back the development and adoption by others that will be so necessary [...]

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The Naked Corporation

January 24, 2005

The Naked Corporation: How the Age of Transparency Will Revolutionize Business by Don Tapscott and Dave Ticoll was Slashdotted today, sparking a lot of lively discussion. The book is full of themes that I believe to be critical components of the emerging Open Source Economy. The over-arching message is that in today’s world we are [...]

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Lessig: Time to Reframe the IP Debate

March 18, 2004

On Tuesday, Stanford Law School professor Lawrence Lessig delivered an important speech at the Genus Group’s first Open Source Business Conference, making a powerful plea to reframe the current debate over intellectual property. “Contrary to what many people see as a cultural war between conservative business types and liberal independents,” said Lessig, ” this is [...]

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Why MythTV Matters

July 30, 2003

[Editor's Note: As part of my effort to archive writing from several previous blogs, I've included all of my posts from the HomeTech blog that appeared at Metro-Mesh.com (no longer active). This is the first of the posts from that blog which I maintained on that site through January of 2005 before migrating the content [...]

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