I am not an accountant. However, as a Graham and Dodd value investor over the years, I've picked up some of the fundamental principles. A key one is the Matching Principle, that revenues and expenses should be booked in a way that clarifies the … [Continue reading] about Accounting for Vendor Lock-in
Perspectives on Apache OpenOffice 3.4 download numbers
You may have read, on the Apache OpenOffice blog, news that the project has had 5 million downloads in the first 6 weeks since the release of version 3.4. And as the above chart shows, the download rate has increased in the past two weeks, as we've … [Continue reading] about Perspectives on Apache OpenOffice 3.4 download numbers
+1 for Apache OpenOffice 3.4
Read more in the official announcement. You can download Apache OpenOffice 3.4 now, from http://download.openoffice.org/ Tell your friends. And welcome home. … [Continue reading] about +1 for Apache OpenOffice 3.4
Gorilla Free Software Marketing, Chapter 8: Community Metrics
The Importance of Metrics Revolutionary movements require revolutionary progress. However, at the start of a Movement, such progress may not be immediately evident to those whose views of progress have been tainted by commercial software, where … [Continue reading] about Gorilla Free Software Marketing, Chapter 8: Community Metrics
Ending the Symphony Fork
What is a fork? A fork is a form of software reuse. I like your software module. It meets some or many of my needs, but I need some additional features. When I want to reuse existing functionality from another software product, I generally have … [Continue reading] about Ending the Symphony Fork