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Aug
31

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Aug
31

The effects of commercialization on open-source co

Substantial and continuous contributions in infrastructural modules, such as desktop and platform libraries, require a high degree of knowledge and technical competence. The ability to work full-time on a project allows paid developers to develop their technical skills and their understanding of the code base to a greater extent than volunteers who usually contribute in their free time. (167)

In a way, as I’ve written before, this translates into “transparent but not permeable” development. If you’re part of the commercial/paid developer crowd, you work on the meatiest parts of the code. If you’re “just a volunteer,” you’re stranded on the boundaries.

(Credit:
Evangelia Berdou)

The system tends to self-regulate. Commercial interest in open-source projects is a Very Good Thing.

Berdou notes that “communities have become more responsive to accommodating commercial needs” (171), but is this a good thing?

Or are you? As Berdou points out, this segmentation may have much to do with practical exigencies, and nothing to do with any designated division of labor:

The answer is in the data. I just finished reading Evangelia Berdou’s Ph.D. thesis “Managing the Bazaar: Commercialization and peripheral participation in mature, community-led Free/Open source software projects,” and highly recommend it to anyone seeking to understand how open-source communities operate, especially in light of the increasing encroachment of commercial interests into open-source development communities. Berdou looks at paid vs. unpaid developer contributions to GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) and KDE (K Desktop Environment) and reaches some interesting, if unsurprising, results.

This makes sense. It doesn’t answer the question that Microsoft raised long ago, however: as open source matures, will this translate into selling out to commercial interests?

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Evangelia Berdou)

Recent research suggests that much of the core development work on open-source projects is done by paid developers. Is this a bad thing?

Berdou starts with four primary hypotheses, only two of which end up making the grade:

I think so. Open-source communities have learned over time to integrate commercial interests into their development ranks without capitulating to those commercial interests. There are strong safeguards in place within successful open-source communities (Apache, Linux, etc.) to prevent any one company from hijacking the community. For those corporate-sponsored projects that exercise too much control over the development community for their project, they tend to see less outside community involvement at any level of development within the project.

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There are those who are paid to work on GNOME who do the lion’s share of core development work. Then there are others who are paid to work on free and open-source software, which end up almost wholly focusing on secondary development activities. (See page 139.) And then there are the true volunteers who end up doing the peripheral work.

Only Nos. 2 and 4 end up surviving her analysis, though her data (and my experience) suggests that No. 1 is also true.

Using GNOME as an example, roughly half of the developers are “paid” (meaning, remunerated by an organization specifically to develop the GNOME software):

Paid developers are more likely to contribute to critical parts of the code base. Paid developers are more likely to maintain critical parts of the code base. Volunteer contributors are more likely to participate in aspects of the project that are geared towards the end-user. Programmers and peripheral contributors are not likely to participate equally in major community events. (134)

However, when Berdou analyzes what these different groups actually do on the GNOME project, it becomes clear that while all developers are created equal, some are more equal than others:

Aug
31

Ten bucks says some nerd will use this ring to get

No word yet on pricing, but keep checking Shimizu’s blog and I’m sure she’ll update it once it goes on sale.

(Credit: Sakurako Shimizu)

Men, look down at your fingers; if there’s a ring on there, it best be either a wedding ring, a ring of power, or this super authentic 1981 ATARI chip replica, ’cause seriously, you’ve got no excuse for wearing any other jewelry on your digits.

Click through to see more pics of this ring. Hey, at least it’s not a toe-ring.

Handmade by Sakurako Shimizu in Brooklyn, N.Y., the 18-karat gold ring you see above is crafted to look exactly like the original Atari computer chip. Talk about geek cred–who even remembers what those chips looked like?

Good luck getting that rock into those tight jeans

Aug
30

BlackBerry service bends, doesn’t break

E-mail delivery to some BlackBerrys, like this Curve 8320, was spotty Wednesday morning.

Representatives from AT&T and Verizon said they hadn’t received any complaints, but had heard about the issue with the BIS product. Forum users reported spotty deliveries of e-mail Wednesday morning that were expected to eventually resolve themselves as the queue emptied out.

This time around, only customers of RIM’s BlackBerry Internet Service appeared to be affected. These are individuals who have their e-mailed forwarded to their BlackBerrys, as opposed to corporate customers using the BlackBerry Enterprise Server product. Last week, everyone was hosed when a server failed at RIM’s network operations center, but this one wasn’t quite so bad.

So, no BlackBerry panic this time around.

Users of Research In Motion’s BlackBerry service reported some kinks in the system Wednesday, although the problems did not appear as serious as those of a week ago.

The company released a statement concerning the outage Wednesday afternoon. “RIM did perform regularly scheduled maintenance on BlackBerry Internet Service that took longer than originally expected, and some BlackBerry Internet Service customers may have experienced slower delivery of e-mail earlier today. The majority of customers would not have seen any impact.”

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RIM)

Aug
30

Microsoft says Live log-in problem resolved

Although a large number of Windows Live servers are running on Microsoft’s Windows Server 2008, which is due to be launched Wednesday, a representative said the problem is not a glitch with the new operating system.

“We can say with certainty that Windows Server did not contribute to this incident,” Windows Live Product Manager Samantha McManus said in a statement to CNET News.com.

LOS ANGELES–After a day of problems, Microsoft says its Windows Live log-in issues are now a thing of the past.

Microsoft was far less detailed when it comes to what the problem actually was.

“This issue appears to have been related to an unexpected event which caused device overload and failure,” McManus said.

Aug
28

OSBC Report HP’s Karl Paetzel on the tools of ope

On Point #2, Karl noted that a big issue derives from embedded licenses. OpenOffice, for example, may be licensed under the GPL, but there are hundreds (thousands?) of packages within that program that carry other open-source licenses. HP has therefore developed its FOSSology tool to help it manage internally used open-source code, but more recently to help its customers (and the broader community).

commentary (Credit:
Matt Asay)

Customers have far more FOSS than they realize.
Customers have far more FOSS license obligations than they realize.

Karl Paetzel, part of HP’s Enterprise Storage and Server Division and part of HP’s growing open-source business. As he noted in his opening remarks, HP has realized more than $10 billion in open source-related revenue in the past few years.

Tools like this, marketed correctly, help to broaden open-source adoption. Marketed incorrectly (as “safe ways to use risky software”), they’re unproductive. I think HP is going about it in the right way.

I was fortunate to work with HP back in my Novell days on open-source issues. Novell used HP as its model for an open source review board. I particularly like how HP doesn’t crimp open-source adoption by shutting down downloads. Rather, it evaluates open-source usage at the point of distribution/release. It therefore gives its employees room to experiment.

Aug
28

iLuv USB charger juices up 3 gadgets at once

The triple-ported iAD117 beats similar offerings from Belkin and Griffin, both of which offer wall and
car chargers with a mere two USB ports. But the iLuv is one shy of Kensington’s 4-port model. In fact, I have an OEM version of the Kensington–the Lenmar ACUSB4 AC Travel Adapter–that costs less than $20 at Amazon. Unlike the Kensington, that one also includes snap-on plug sets for international travel. It’s been faithfully sitting on my desk, simultaneously charging two iPods, a phone, and a Bluetooth headset during the workday for months.

As owners of the
iPhone are wont to (correctly) point out, their uber-handheld obviates the need to carry a separate phone, media player, and game device. But there are plenty of us who still need to tote an employer-issued BlackBerry, prefer a plain old
iPod, or just can’t bear a coast-to-coast flight without a DS or PSP. For that multidevice crowd, the new iLuv iAD117 USB wall charger is an inviting choice. It crowds three USB charging ports into one compact wall wart, and offers foldable power prongs for easy travel.

Related:
Transform a USB hub into the ultimate DIY gadget charger

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iLuv)

The iLuv iAD117 can charge 3 USB devices simultaneously.

Still, 3 ports will be enough for many, and the travel-friendly foldable prongs of the iLuv are a nice feature. The iLuv iAD117 is set to debut in September for $20; the single-port iLuv iAD116 will also be available for $15.

Aug
28

Hands on with HP’s online backup application, Upli

The application doesn’t offer PC-to-PC sync (see FolderShare, BeInSync, SugarSync), which to many is an obscure feature, but I think it’s one of the most valuable data safety and convenience applications you can have on a personal computer. There’s no virtual drive, such as XDrive has, which makes using the service just a little more tedious than it needs to be. Also, it’s PC only on the backup side, although any machine with a browser can view Upline archive pages. There’s also no mobile client. Finally, the search feature seems to only search file names, not files’ contents.

The product allows for Web-based access to your backed-up files, which is very nice if you want to grab a something when you’re away from your PC. You can also share files via e-mail (recipients get links, not the files themselves) or publish files for public access.

Now, the flip side. The biggest turn off is that Upline does not backup e-mail files. That’s planned for the future, according to HP, but backup users will need it now. Imagine losing your e-mail archive. Enough said.

The good news first: The software is simple to get started with (critical for a backup application) and the paid plans provide unlimited storage for your documents, photos, music, and video files (also critical–who wants to count bits when signing up for data insurance?). The system checks for new files by default every 15 minutes, and uploads your data to the HP-run servers in a quiet background process.

The desktop application is pretty straightforward for a backup product.

HP has entered the online backup space with a new product called Upline. It’s a decent cloud-based backup product at a good price point, but it has a few frustrating limitations.

The product is based on Titanize, which HP acquired when it bought the company Opelin last year. I’ve always thought Titanize was an underappreciated backup application. Perhaps HP was listening.

See also: Mozy and Carbonite.

This review has been updated from the original: Information was added on backing up data to a local device.

Upline is neither a perfect backup tool nor a complete integrated online storage suite. However, at this price point, given its unlimited backup space and its straightforward sharing options, it’s a good deal.

Upline can also back up files to a local device, such as a second hard drive, a server, or a PC on the local network. I don’t know of any other products that handle both local and Web-based backup. It’s a very cool feature.

There’s a free version that gives you 1GB of online storage for a year, but if you’re serious about backup you’ll want one of the paid versions. The least expensive $59/year Home plan gives you the unlimited storage and allows up to three PCs to share the online storage pool. Family plans and small office plans give you individual storage bins, and the business plans also give you an administrator’s dashboard.

Upline's desktop widget.

Another missing piece: System restore. Upline is a document and media backup product. It won’t store your programs or system settings. So if your hard disk crashes, you can’t use it to rebuild your system.

Aug
27

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Aug
27

Docstoc offers simple sync with your hard drive

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Docstoc)

By default, the syncing application goes for your documents folder, though you can set it to sync up with other folders on your hard drive or folders within your home network. Documents that are automatically updated get set as private, so others will not be able to see them, but you can set specific folders as public too.

Docstoc now offers a bird's-eye view of your Web documents, complete with live previews and editing. Using the new utility, you can also have it sync up all the documents from your hard drive.

Considering the growing trend of Netbooks with relatively little built-in storage, users with this desktop application installed with be able to offload whatever they created without having worry about running out of room.

Related:
New Microsoft Office competition from Zoho, Zooos

To help manage all these files, the document home screen has also been given an overhaul that the company is calling MyDocs. It offers a little bit more than the documents folder on your computer, with simple thumbnail views, as well as a quick preview mode that lets you open up documents of any size and nearly any file type in about a second.

In the meantime, a company called Dropbox (review) has been offering something similar. It also requires special desktop software to get the job done.

If you’re a
Mac user running Leopard, you’ve been able to do this with the proper quick-look plug-ins, but this is all on the Web.

Docstoc creator and CEO Jason Lawrence Nazar tells me that future versions of the syncing tool will include bidirectional syncing, meaning that changes made to documents in the cloud can be pushed back to your local machine. This should be coming in “weeks.”

Online document-hosting service Docstoc on Thursday is introducing a useful new tool for PCs and Macs that will automatically back up and sync documents from your hard drive to your Docstoc account.

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