Aug
16

Reframing the Open-Source vs. Proprietary Software Licensing Debate

Johannes Ernst on August 16th, 2010

Much ink has been spilled on open-source vs. proprietary licensing, and in the end, it’s a clash of civilizations: one whose goal it is to better humanity by making valuable technology freely available, vs. one whose members must return more money to their investors than they had to pay to the developers creating the software. [...]

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Aug
6

The News Never Changes

Johannes Ernst on August 6th, 2010

Found in San Francisco. Guess the news is the same today as it was in 1897.

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Aug
5

Push vs. Pull in identity — sounds familiar?

Johannes Ernst on August 5th, 2010

The blogosphere is buzzing over Bob Blakley’s recent presentation at the Gartner/Burton Catalyst conference. The issue seems to be this, as expressed by Ben Goodman of Novell: According to Blakley’s assertions, identity management today is based on a “push” model as IdM applications centrally store user entitlements and those entitlements are “pushed” out to the [...]

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Aug
2

WikiLeaks and the End of the Establishment

Johannes Ernst on August 2nd, 2010

This time around, it’s serious. The recent publication of the massive Kabul war diary by WikiLeaks signals the end of business as usual for the establishment. This publication happens to target the military establishment, but its reverberations will be felt in all parts of society, and eventually, in all countries and regions. Back in the [...]

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