Free software is leading the way
Perhaps the most difficult thing to assume about the change we are living and the new world that will result is that sharing is the way to win. Our brains are not prepared for this; we can be ethical or good, it doesn't matter, in our heritage, winning and sharing are different things, almost at odds with each other. And it is likely to cost us more than one....
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Intel became the absolute king of processors in the early 1990s, around the time of the 486 and Pentium. Little by little, every computer you saw had a sticker like this one. So much so that if it didn't have that little sticker on it, you didn't buy it; regardless of whether you had...
Why doesn't open source software take off?
Adoption times for a new technology are always longer than expected. The paradigm shift towards open culture and free software in particular is, in my opinion, a change of era, something too big not to make us walk on rough terrain. There are large companies well...
What if SaaS were the natural way out for open source software?
Ten days ago, at a lunch of illustrious geeks convened by the Great Didac Lee. Hector Perez commented that WordPress had released a paid service, consisting of hosting and blog maintenance packages. Hector, as we all do, took for granted that his fifteen table mates knew the news; in my opinion, it was a...