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17 items tagged with opensource

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Opening Java (November 11, 2006) The legal difficulties involved in open sourcing Java.

Zempt (March 3, 2006) The end of an era

Gregarius (March 3, 2006) Looking for an RSS reader? So was I.

Open Source profits (February 2, 2006) Big companies are becoming major contributors to open source projects and sometimes buying the companies behind them. There's big profits to be made in open source.

Look for updates (November 11, 2003) Make sure you look for software updates before spending lots of time trying to troubleshoot problems.

CMS Needs (July 7, 2003) Where's the easy-to-use CMS for the average small Web site?

Donations and open source teams (June 6, 2003) Many open source projects accept donations as a way of funding their development efforts and I'm wondering how these donations are typically distributed among team members.

...Cut once (June 6, 2003) The origin of this blog's title is the old carpenter's adage, "measure twice, cut once." The adage admonishes builders to plan carefully. Measure each board before you cut it, since once it's been cut, you can't undo the cut.

Rounded tab corners (May 5, 2003) Jemima Pereira has added rounded corners to my CSS tabs code. By opening the code, it was made stronger. That's the value of open source.

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