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Accounting for Vendor Lock-in

2012/07/12 By Rob 3 Comments

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

Filed Under: Economics, FUD, Open Source

Perspectives on Apache OpenOffice 3.4 download numbers

2012/06/22 By Rob 1 Comment

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

Filed Under: Apache, OpenOffice

+1 for Apache OpenOffice 3.4

2012/05/08 By Rob 3 Comments

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

Filed Under: Apache, OpenOffice

Gorilla Free Software Marketing, Chapter 8: Community Metrics

2012/04/01 By Rob 3 Comments

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

Filed Under: Humor, Open Source

Ending the Symphony Fork

2012/02/01 By Rob

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

Filed Under: Apache, Open Source, OpenOffice

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