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Proprietary software: A defence
Talkback Proprietary software WAS an extremely successful business model. Large foreign software companies did not become "centres of software innovation using the revenue generation power of proprietary software".
[December 19, 2003, 8:41]
Proprietary software: A defence
Talkback GPL and proprietary software are not at complete odds. Mainly a question of trusting Microsoft Proprietary software at the moment mainly means windows + MS office in government procurement. Article does nothing to address the concerns of...
[December 17, 2003, 16:16]
VA Linux to sell proprietary software
News VA Linux Systems, once one of the flagships of the open-source software world, will rely on sales of proprietary software in the future, the company said today as it reported a $290 million (£200m) loss for the most recent quarter.
[August 24, 2001, 17:20]
Advantages of Amanda Over Proprietary Backup Software
White Papers This white paper discusses how Amanda compares to proprietary backup software. It will help people understand some key Amanda advantages, and will help them evaluate Amanda for protecting their data. Today there are a number of choices when...
[April 3, 2009, 1:22]
Proprietary software: A defence
Talkback He is paid to filter out the facts that can be used to advance the argument for free and open software. Only a braindead or a paid professional will disagree with the fact that Open Source creates better and chaeper software.
[December 10, 2004, 6:00]
Proprietary software: A defence
Talkback How safe is this software for your machine?
[October 27, 2005, 20:17]
Proprietary software: A defence
Talkback The explanation of how the monetisation of software leads to profit and jobs is pretty laughable, as it is so narrowly focused on the needs of the technology industry. What about the companies that actually pay for and use the software?
[December 17, 2003, 9:03]
Proprietary software: A defence
Talkback It would be nice to see John Carroll respond to these comments. It seems a bit redundant to have a Talkback feature where apparently nobody from ZDNet listens.
[December 23, 2003, 13:00]
RE: Bursting the proprietary-software bubble
Talkback Just look at the number of proprietary vendors that poured scorn on Linux and who now are deeply involved with it - they laughed at Linux, then they poured vitriol on it, now they are in the fold. That was phase1, the move away from the proprietary...
[November 7, 2008, 7:35]
Linux 'better than proprietary software'
News Proprietary software, in general, has one to seven flaws per thousand lines of code, according to an April report from the National Cybersecurity Partnership's Working Group on the Software Lifecycle, which cited an analysis of development methods...
[December 14, 2004, 10:30]
VA releases proprietary software
News VA Linux Systems on Tuesday announced a new proprietary version of SourceForge, the collaborative programming software that now is the centerpiece of the company's survival strategy. The new version, scheduled to ship 16 November, integrates better...
[November 7, 2001, 16:37]
Stallman: No future in proprietary software
News Our mission is to solve the social problem of proprietary software. Microsoft is just one of many proprietary software companies, and those proprietary software companies are all more or less disrespecting the freedom of their own users.
[December 5, 2002, 7:06]
How the software economy is driven by proprietary work
Talkback Because they influence lots of people, and they aren't idiots.
[May 27, 2004, 14:00]
How the software economy is driven by proprietary work
Talkback Why you even bother to reply to such idiots as Stallman and Raymond remains to be seen.
[May 20, 2004, 0:44]
How the software economy is driven by proprietary work
Talkback Software is not just for flights of fancy, and Open Source programmers are not dreamy theoreticians. As to customers, how much closer can you get to the customer when you are both the programmer *and* the user for the software you are using?
[June 16, 2004, 16:51]
Open source to change the face of software says report
News Forrester predicts software companies will be forced to shift from proprietary business models to open source alternatives as they come to see open source as a more efficient and economically advantageous method of software development.
[August 17, 2000, 7:17]
Learning lessons from open source
Leader Even so, expect the publication of the study from the British Educational Communications and Technology Association (BECTA) into this issue to arrive on Friday amid a cloud of PR flak from some proprietary software vendors claiming that their...
[May 9, 2005, 13:40]
Why choose open source?
Talkback proprietary software more secure than open source ? why is netbsd able to be the world speed record for data transmission using a 2 years old single cpu machine at 2 ghz with 512 mb of ram beating proprietary software on multi-processor machine...
[June 15, 2004, 1:00]
Trend Micro: open source is more secure
News Antivirus vendor Trend Micro is claiming that open source software is inherently more secure than proprietary software such as Microsoft Windows. Cox was reluctant to compare the relative security merits of open source and proprietary software, but...
[June 13, 2006, 15:40]
Suse Linux gives proprietary modules the boot
News In a change of heart, Novell has ceased distributing proprietary software modules such as 3D video drivers that plug into the Linux kernel. With the move, Novell is aligning itself with the Free Software Foundation, which shuns proprietary software...
[August 1, 2006, 16:15]
