http://news.cnet.com/8300-13505_3-16.html The Open Road en-us The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay 2009 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:23:47 PST Open source: No vow of poverty (or get-rich-quick scheme) http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10406371-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad Open source is not a sure-fire way to get developers, income, or much of anything, but used right it can help to grow a proprietary software business. Go figure. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10406371-16.html Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:23:47 PST Matt Asay Twitter needs a pretty face to beat Facebook http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10406075-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad For all the power of Twitter and Facebook in terms of open APIs and open data, the reality is that user interface is going to win this battle. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10406075-16.html Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:58:23 PST Matt Asay Handbrake 0.9.4: Your best deal on Black Friday http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10405623-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad Handbrake, the world's best video transcoder, just hit its 0.9.4 release and delivers more than 1,000 changes while improving speed, quality, and file size. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10405623-16.html Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:23:00 PST Matt Asay At its best, is open source unbeatable? http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10405324-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad Open-source development, when it works, perhaps works so well and at such a frenetic pace that no proprietary vendor can hope to compete. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10405324-16.html Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:57:00 PST Matt Asay Your new software vendor? Domino's Pizza http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10404406-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad Software vendors may lose out in the new open-source economy that empowers users to write more software. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10404406-16.html Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:12:57 PST Matt Asay The 'wisdom of crowds' loses steam http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10403780-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad The gurus said that the community would change the way the industry develops and sells software. The gurus were wrong. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10403780-16.html Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:51:28 PST Matt Asay Microsoft's embrace of MySQL could kill it http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10402551-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad Microsoft is now offering support for MySQL, which should give pause to every open-source company that expects to make money through support subscriptions. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10402551-16.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:01:23 PST Matt Asay Apple: 'Enterprise' is as enterprise does http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10401845-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad Gartner's Nick Jones wants to characterize Apple as a consumer company, but what happens when those consumers start using Apple's tech in the enterprise en masse? http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10401845-16.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:21:18 PST Matt Asay Theory of competition fails in open source, elsewhere http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10401413-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad Monopoly is a dreaded word for the open-source community, so why are we as prone as anyone else to embrace natural monopolies? http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10401413-16.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:41:42 PST Matt Asay Microsoft's Web business spurring development of IE http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10401073-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad Microsoft has something even more fearsome than Firefox snapping at its heels: its own online business. But the industry still needs to hedge against Microsoft with Firefox. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10401073-16.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:16:14 PST Matt Asay