Comments on: Proprietary Software

By: systemcall dot org » Closed source development

systemcall dot org » Closed source development — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:43:09 +0000

[...] closed source development has its niche (and a very important one), it does feel a bit [...]

By: Online Survey Software

Online Survey Software — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:55:58 +0000

yea it is a lot of in-depth information to swallow in 1 reading… i guess ill have to go back and look over the key points
Matt

By: Risk Management Software

Risk Management Software — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:21:20 +0000

sounds like some sweet software… glad u posted about it. now to experience it…
-Jared

By: Melissa and doug

Melissa and doug — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:24:47 +0000

So very true with that last sentence! I have to make an ugly confession, I work for a software company in the midwest and a recent new addition of our software used ioncube to make it more proprietary. Needless to say this once easy to use and install software has all kinds of glitches now and nobody is happy with it.

By: rengolin

rengolin — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:47:53 +0000

Hi Cullen,

The Xen virtualisation is a good example of open source and academia interaction to come up with products even better than their heavy commercial counterparts such as IBM zSeries and VMWare.

Check out this report and the PDF at the end.

By: Video Conferencing

Video Conferencing — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:40:23 +0000

Great information, i need to read and read it again in order to digest all the information. Thanks for sharing.

By: Cullen Ryan

Cullen Ryan — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:07:04 +0000

I’m with you all the way, and I especially agree with your statement on having clear and easy to use interfaces.

Also, having the open source community play a part in academic grading, while logistically challenging, seems like a really neat and novel idea.

Thanks for the post!

By: Bide

Bide — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:33:22 +0000

Nice writing, the very last sentence I like the most. That’s exactly the point.
Regards.