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May 7, 2008 11:39 PM PDT

Open source challenging the incumbents: The video

by Matt Asay

After three straight days of traveling to close my quarter, I needed to unwind tonight. Given that I don't drink or smoke crack, I chose to create a video: "The Challengers of Open Source." Cheesy title, but I had The New Pornographers' song ("Challengers") running through my head and car stereo on the drive home from the airport. So be it.

What is the video "about"? Well, about some of trends guiding open source into more enterprises, but mostly about the great people I know in the open-source (mostly business) community. The best thing about open source is the exceptional crowd with which I get to run.

I know I missed some in this video - I simply couldn't find good photos or, if I did, they inexplicably didn't work in the video when converted (such was the case with Nat Friedman's that I pulled from Facebook).


Matt Asay brings a decade of in-the-trenches open-source business and legal experience to The Open Road, with an emphasis on emerging open-source business strategies and opportunities. Matt is vice president of business development at Alfresco, a company that develops open-source software for content management. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure. You can follow Matt on Twitter @mjasay.
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by omniscient_polymath May 8, 2008 1:08 AM PDT
Great open source video - where can I download a copy to keep? Also, is its sound track that which was alluded to in the preamble (i.e., "The Challengers" song), and where can we get a copy of that great chart showing the Microsoft Empire on a white board set-up?
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by gkanai May 8, 2008 2:47 AM PDT
http://www.linux-watch.com/files/misc/softwarewars.jpg
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by Matt Asay May 8, 2008 6:33 AM PDT
I'd be happy to make a copy available to anyone, but it's 80MB. If someone provides me an FTP server, I'll upload it.
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by davidshay1 May 8, 2008 6:55 AM PDT
Matt,

here is an idea for you you can upload the material to kaltura and create a collaborative video and let other help with getting all the missing images or video, and/or create other versions
(we're also working on the 'download' feature, which will be available really soon)
you can do it either on the userzone
http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/corp/userzone

or even better, open a new page on the videowiki
http://www.kaltura.com/devwiki/index.php/Main_Page

at any rate, the result can be embedded on any page

Shay David, CTO
Kaltura
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by dbur May 9, 2008 11:19 AM PDT
Open Source is absolutely about the people. It was this very concept that became the soul of a company I co-founded. A few good lessons for entrepreneurs of any kind. http://www.doubleencore.com/blog/2008/05/07/open-source-and-the-soul-of-a-startup/
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