links for 2007-04-11

Open Sources | InfoWorld | Oregon Dept of Human Services turns to open source (SugarCRM) | April 10, 2007 02:13 PM | By Matt Asay

“The same day Crowell and other IT staffers met with OMAP staff, senior systems architect Kurtis Danka searched Google for the terms ‘open source’ and ‘CRM.’ ” – this is why it’s important that Sugar be allowed to brand themselves as open source

(tags: opensource SugarCRM CRM)
WebMink

QoTD: “When we hear the RIAA and their cronies moaning about how downloads are killing their industry, they are right and we are cheering.”

(tags: SimonPhipps DRM RIAA KateWalsh economics sales)
BruceBlog

i think this is a terrific acquisition for Iona, and Bruce is pleased from his end – should be interesting

(tags: LogicBlaze IONA M&A BruceSnyder)
Open Letter to Sun Microsystems – JCK – The Apache Software Foundation

here’s the letter; already wrote this up, so see the blog for comments

(tags: openletter Apache Sun opensource JCK legal licensing)

Categories: Links.

By sogrady

— April 10, 2007 at 10:34 pm

http://perkypants.org/blog/ Jeff Waugh

this is why it’s important that Sugar be allowed to brand themselves as open source

This is why Sugar have a huge incentive to brand themselves as Open Source, but if they are not truly Open Source, this will dilute the term for other players and what it means for customers.
http://redmonk.com/sogrady sogrady

Jeff: objection sustained. in my view, Sugar is an open source firm, but i appreciate that opinions differ on the matter. as for dilution, it looks as if that’s already occurred – assuming that you don’t think Sugar is legitimately open source.

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