Orrido olezzo emana dall'Italia
Troppo facile fare giochi di parole sulla vicenda Profumo, ma davvero è il caso di dire che qui qualcosa puzza. E si sente fino a qui! Ma come, Profumo ha tirat su una delle più importanti banche...
View ArticleThe master hack of mr. Zuckerberg
Eben Moglen mentioned not too long ago Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg saying: Mr. Zuckerberg has [...] done more harm to the human race than anybody else his age I wonder if he foresaw also that...
View ArticleHow is Google damaging consumers?
I kept this post as draft since I read Wired’s article about Google and their supposed dominant position. Today I read again about the new investigation of US Antitrust targeting bigG because it holds...
View ArticleIs Google Docs the weakest link in Chromebook?
Interesting thoughts on what Google should do to take over Windows with its Chromebook. I don’t agree with all of it, especially I don’t think that Google Docs should necessarily get all the features...
View ArticleFirst action from Microsoft after buying Skype
Every time Microsoft has the chance to demonstrate it can play nice with free software/open source companies, they fail. After buying Skype, Microsoft has canceled the agreement with Digium for the...
View ArticleOracle 'donates' OpenOffice.org to Apache foundation
Oracle has done what Sun should have done a long time ago: put OO.org code into the hand of an independent foundation. The good news is that now a wider participation from corporations and individuals...
View ArticleWhy is Asus selling bad customer experience?
When I read that Asus announced to ship three new models of its Eee PC with Ubuntu I was excited. Then I went on to read the full announcement and I found out ath NETBOOK INNOVATOR Asustek has...
View ArticleWhat to do if adoption of copyleft licenses declines
Is adoption of copyleft licenses really declining? Blackduck Sotware with its own secret recipe says so, as Matt Aslett reports. Whether or not this is true we can’t tell because BlackDuck doesn’t...
View ArticleIBM and its success across a century
I spent many months together with IBM Italy during the first years of their ‘Linux initiative’ and learned to appreciate this huge corporation. I worked with their engineers certifying the now-defunct...
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The quest for strategies to monetize free software
I’ve discussed recently with a friend of mine photographer, illustrator and animator about the status of GIMP, Inkscape and Blender. The good news is that professionals increasingly know about these...
View ArticleThe quest to sustainable development of free software
A few articles on the topic of how to sustain development of free/libre software caught my attention lately: Sourceforge adjusted its DevShare program (kudos to them for listening to the comments of...
View ArticleSustainability of Open Source software communities beyond a fork: How and why...
Sustainability of Open Source software communities beyond a fork: How and why has the LibreOffice project evolved? via Sustainability of Open Source software communities beyond a fork: How and why has...
View ArticleHow do companies do OpenStack?
I’m cruising Silicon Valley these days asking “how does your company do OpenStack?” to collect best practices and notable mistakes from various leaders of OpenStack corporate community. I’m hoping to...
View ArticleTips to improve organizations contributing to OpenStack
The slides of my presentation at OpenStack Summit in Paris 2014 (download ODP source, 9M). And the sessions’ recording:
View ArticleOpenStack is as start-up friendly as anything
I read someone complaining about OpenStack being not friendly enough to startups one time too many. Latest post by Rob Hirschfeld 10 ways to make OpenStack more Start-up Friendly made me want to...
View ArticleNokia goes for Trolltech
Now, this is surprising: Nokia acquired Trolltech, makers of toolkit QT, GTK’s competitor. What surprises me is that Nokia is using GTK on its tablet products (the 770, N800 and N810). So now Nokia has...
View ArticleBruce Schneier on Wired: ‘Security’ Is Code for ‘Control’
I couldn’t agree less with Schneier’s post on Wired: lock-in is bad for users.’ I liked this sentence that explains well how I’m feeling now after having used a Mac for 2 weeks (I promise, I’ll write...
View ArticleWengo stopped developing wengophone
Some disappointing news today: Wengo stopped developing Wengophone, the VoIP SIP and XMPP/Jabber multiplatform client.’ ’ They announced it in the developer’s mailing list. Update: the’ development of...
View ArticleCross-platform and interoperability is the key
When it comes to connecting people, the first thing you need to do is use the same language.’ That doesn’t mean force everybody to use your language, because that’s what dictators do (and dictators...
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Perché ristabilire il senso di comunità porta al successo
Ho tenuto oggi una lezione di tre ore al Social Media Lab dello IULM dal titolo Etica della società digitale, ovvero perché ristabilire il senso di comunità porta al successo. Oggi ho avuto la conferma...
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