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ffffound.com - 3/31/2009

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sandbox.bitgravity.com - 4/10/2009

Destroy the Internet with a hacksaw?

— sandbox.bitgravity.com — This morning many people in Silicon Valley woke up without 911 service, Internet, cellular phones, and in... some cases TV. Web sites were impacted and Internet traffic between a few major datacenters stopped flowing. Several of our employees were cut ... (more) Destroy the Internet with a hacksaw?

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opensource.org - 4/2/2009

Open Source Business Conference Retrospective | Open Source Initiative

— opensource.org — Along with the Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting, the Open Source Business Conference was one... of the two best conferences I've been to recently (I generally hate conferences). I got my geek on at: FOSDEM and actually enjoyed and learned ... (more) Open Source Business Conference Retrospective | Open ...

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Moore's second law and software
Open Source — ... (left) is out with a post making the usual complaints about open source overwhelming IP rights and creating a “race to zero” with quality forgotten. ...

Does Open Source Mean a Race to Zero, Threatening Industry? [OStatic]
GigaOM Network — ... Here is yet another post arguing that open source software introduces a pricing "race to zero" that threatens the entire software industry, especially commercial efforts within it. It's from Gene Quinn, a patent attorney, writing for IP Watchdog. Dana Blankenhorn has ...

Does Open Source Mean a Race to Zero, Threatening Industry?
OStatic blogs — ... Here is yet another post arguing that open source software introduces a pricing "race to zero" that threatens the entire software industry, especially commercial efforts within it. It's from Gene Quinn, a patent attorney, writing for IP Watchdog. Dana Blankenhorn has ...

How Is Open Source Like The Large Hadron Collider?
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — ... , Apr 3, 2009 11:26 AM [image] Answer: you start using it, and it sucks everything else up into a black hole. If that sounds like a cheap shot, consider this column by Gene Quinn of IPWatchdog.com: "Open Source Race to Zero May Destroy Software Industry". That's a scare headline if there ever was one, and I read the piece with the growing sense that I had Heard This One Before. I had, just in a different skin. The article revolves around the following premises, which I have quoted from him and scaled down a bit for space: 1. "There is a realistic ceiling on the revenue that ...