https://maisonbisson.com/tags/open-source/ Recent content in open source on MaisonBisson Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:32:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/solving-problems-in-secret/ Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:32:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/solving-problems-in-secret/ Matt Blaze computer and information science at University of Pennsylvania and blogs about security at Exhaustive Search. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bugs-and-hacks/ Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:17:56 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bugs-and-hacks/ A few years ago I found an article pointing out how spammers had figured out how to abuse some code I wrote back in 2001 or so. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-economist-on-open-source/ Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:23:41 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-economist-on-open-source/ From The Economist in 2006: Open-source business: Open, but not as usual. https://maisonbisson.com/post/usability-vs-open-source/ Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:43:17 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/usability-vs-open-source/ This article comparing the usability of Joomla vs. WordPress has already been linked by everybody’s uncle, but it’s still worth a look. https://maisonbisson.com/post/mysql-51-released-community-takes-stock/ Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:53:18 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mysql-51-released-community-takes-stock/ MySQL 5.1 is out as a GA release, but with crashing bugs that should give likely users pause. https://maisonbisson.com/post/fiddling-with-oss4lib-theme/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:03:59 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/fiddling-with-oss4lib-theme/ I generally liked CommentPress, but when the Institute for the Future of the Book website went down recently, it started throwing errors in the dashboard. https://maisonbisson.com/post/many-eyes-bugs-being-shallow-all-that/ Tue, 20 May 2008 08:45:34 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/many-eyes-bugs-being-shallow-all-that/ WordPress 2.5.1 added a really powerful feature to register_taxonomy(): automatic registration of permalinks and query vars to match the taxonomy. https://maisonbisson.com/post/buddypress-the-wordpress-of-social-networks/ Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:41:42 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/buddypress-the-wordpress-of-social-networks/ Andy Peatling, who developed a WordPress MU-based social network and then released the code as BuddyPress has just joined Automattic, where they seem to have big plans for it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/chris-long-tail-anderson-on-open-source/ Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:01:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/chris-long-tail-anderson-on-open-source/ Open source and the Long Tail: An interview with Chris Anderson The shift of software from the desktop to the Web will really be the making of open-source software. https://maisonbisson.com/post/people-make-scriblio-better/ Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:09:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/people-make-scriblio-better/ It’s way cool to see Lichen‘s Scriblio installation instructions translated to Hungarian. Even cooler to have Sarah the tagging librarian take hard look at it and give us some criticism (and praise! https://maisonbisson.com/post/how-expensive-does-commercial-software-need-to-get-before-we-consider-open-source/ Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:17:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/how-expensive-does-commercial-software-need-to-get-before-we-consider-open-source/ Open source software of the free as in free beer and free as in free speech variety has matured to the point that there are now strong contenders in nearly every category, though that doesn’t make them easy choices. https://maisonbisson.com/post/copyleft-defending-intellectual-property/ Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:53:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/copyleft-defending-intellectual-property/ Anybody who thinks Free Software is anti-copyright or disrespectful of intellectual property should take a look at Mark Jaquith’s post, What a GPL’d Movable Type means. https://maisonbisson.com/post/mullenweg-on-wordpress-and-open-source/ Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:49:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mullenweg-on-wordpress-and-open-source/ I wish I’d seen this from WordPress maven Matt Mullenweg before I finished My LTR on open source software for libraries. https://maisonbisson.com/post/building-libraries-with-free-software/ Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:03:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/building-libraries-with-free-software/ Sarah Houghton-Jan‘s review of my LTR on open source software for libraries reminded me I wanted to blog this related piece I’d written for American Libraries. https://maisonbisson.com/post/an-almost-manifesto-masquerading-as-a-presentation/ Sat, 23 Jun 2007 13:43:38 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/an-almost-manifesto-masquerading-as-a-presentation/ Context: Below is the text of my virtual presentation to the LITA BIGWIG (it stands for blogs, wikis, interest group, and stuff) Social Software Showcase. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-rules-2007/ Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:01:19 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-rules-2007/ [innerindex]Web 2.0 has matured to the point where even those who endorse the moniker are beginning to cringe at its use. https://maisonbisson.com/post/open-source-software-and-libraries-ltr-433-finally/ Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:01:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/open-source-software-and-libraries-ltr-433-finally/ The most selfish thing about submitting a manuscript late is asking “When is it going to be out? https://maisonbisson.com/post/economics-of-open-source/ Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:33:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/economics-of-open-source/ Two fairly old papers on the economics of open source. The news recently has been that open source allows companies to bring in better, more innovative talent and saves marketing costs, but these papers are interesting nonetheless. https://maisonbisson.com/post/oss-cuts-marketing-costs-protects-business/ Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:49:36 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/oss-cuts-marketing-costs-protects-business/ VA Linux founder Larry Augustin on OSS In Augustin’s view open source development became a necessity in the 1990s when the cost of marketing a program came to exceed the cost of creating it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/open-source-shifts-costs/ Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:53:58 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/open-source-shifts-costs/ Does open source free your budget up for the best talent? I asked her if the choice to go with open source is helping her to keep costs in check, here’s what [Dabble CEO Mary Hodder] said: https://maisonbisson.com/post/solaris-amp-asap/ Thu, 08 Jun 2006 01:02:04 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/solaris-amp-asap/ A Solaris sysadmin I’m not. But now that I’ve finally got the Sun T2000 server I begged for a while back, I’ve got to ramp it up right quick. https://maisonbisson.com/post/you-mean-other-businesses-handle-acquisitions-too/ Wed, 15 Feb 2006 19:14:28 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/you-mean-other-businesses-handle-acquisitions-too/ Art Rhyno confused my by calling it ERP, but he just rocked his code4lib presentation and I realized he’s talking about the same thing that’s been itching me: libraries are not unique, but our software and standards are unnecessarily so. https://maisonbisson.com/post/cms/ Mon, 19 Dec 2005 15:00:54 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/cms/ With 1,800 CMS vendors in the marketplace, we’re mining what we know or know-of as a way to shorten the list. https://maisonbisson.com/post/open-source-gis/ Tue, 27 Sep 2005 16:50:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/open-source-gis/ Here’s an interesting GeoPlace.com article on open source GIS tools, including GIS extensions to PosgreSQL and MySQL. https://maisonbisson.com/post/whats-zimbra/ Sun, 25 Sep 2005 11:00:43 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/whats-zimbra/ They say “Zimbra is a community for building and maintaining next generation collaboration technology.” What I’d like to know, however, is whether Zmbra is a community driven, social software answer to the problems of groupware — typically driven by management’s needs. https://maisonbisson.com/post/empty-5/ Sun, 18 Sep 2005 14:59:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/empty-5/ I might be overstating it, but Identity Management is the next big thing for the open source community to tackle. https://maisonbisson.com/post/network/ Wed, 17 Aug 2005 07:34:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/network/ Some time ago I pointed to John Robb’s discussion of the potential for the network to amplify the threat of violence from otherwise un-connected and un-organized individuals. https://maisonbisson.com/post/gizmo-project-voip-asterisk/ Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:12:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/gizmo-project-voip-asterisk/ Jason O’Grady{#14763} introduced me to the Skype-like Gizmo Project by the folks over at SIPphone. https://maisonbisson.com/post/most-cmss-suck/ Mon, 11 Apr 2005 07:30:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/most-cmss-suck/ I’ve been slowly struggling with the question of how to replace pMachine, my CMS engine here.