Dave Rosenberg and I joined up again to record another Open Season Sources podcast: the big Number Two. We talk a lot about open-source investing and purchasing in the economic downturn, as well as some of the work Salesforce, Cisco, and others are doing.
As with the first of the Open Sources podcasts, it's relatively short and to the point. Enjoy!
Listen now: Download today's podcastEver wonder how to use open source in your business, or why Microsoft and others have reluctantly capitulated and started to add open source to their products? Dave Rosenberg and I discuss these very things in the latest installment of Open Season.
We know longer have Ashlee Vance, formerly of The Register and now of The New York Times, helping out, but that doesn't slow us down. Indeed, this is one of the most content-rich episodes we've ever done, and perhaps the most useful.
Enjoy.
Just when you thought the Open Season podcast couldn't offend anyone else, Episode 20 rolls in. We take on Ubuntu (Does it taste as good as it runs?), Sun (Will it make it?), Apple (Rampant disappointment at its launch snafus over the past few weeks), Linux desktop (Blame the Mac guys for making it even less relevant), and more.
Larry Lessig showed up (sort of), and I did an impromptu review of the Clearplay DVD editing service. (I'll be writing up a more formal review here - I really, really like it.)
Have a listen and enjoy. I just apologize you can't use Clearplay's service to edit Dave and Ashlee's potty mouths. :-)
Despite returning to the familiar refrain of why the open-source community is broken, Open Season Episode 19 was perhaps my favorite to record. We had sound effects, Kermit vs. Bill Gates contests, discussion on how to make open-source businesses viable, Red Hat and its leadership role, and more.
We also pondered why Dave Rosenberg has been taking shots from former employees, and lauded Bill Gates for his monopolistic practices. A great show. Enjoy.
So, we broadened our horizons on Episode 18 of The Register's Open Season podcast, what with Bill Gates weeping and Henry Nicholas smoking weed and keeping ladies of the night in his underground harem. But we also spent some quality time with Jim Zemlin of the Linux Foundation, who took umbrage at my question, "Do we still need the Linux Foundation, anyway?" and schooled me like Michael Jordan on an elementary school playground.
But that wasn't all: We also riffed on Facebook's devious choice of the CPAL license, Nick Carr eating into our brains, Red Hat Exchange, and more.
Enjoy.
Episode 17 of The Register's Open Season podcast proved to be highly interesting, what with Mike Olson of Sleepycat/Oracle joining us. Mike is one of the smartest guys out there in open source, and recently available as your next CEO.
In this episode we talk through One Laptop Per Child (and come to the conclusion that it's the wrong way to help developing nations), industry consolidation (maybe not as bad as we thought), "the cloud" (huh?), and more. Worth a listen, if for no other reason than to hear Mike.
Ah, Russia in springtime. In this latest installment of The Register's Open Season, we take on the Russian Microsoft mafia ("Get rich by giving me your money"), ask questions of Sun's open-source strategy, dither in cloud computing, and ponder Hans Reiser's trial.
Episode 15 of The Register's Open Season Podcast just went live, and proved to be more fun than usual to record.
In Episode 15, Matt Asay, Dave Rosenberg and I dig into the real motives behind Microsoft's lust for Yahoo!, including its desire to use Yahoo! as a nice software delivery mechanism that works around those pesky PC bundling restrictions. But, even with such craftiness on its side, it's hard for Microsoft to justify this deal, since we don't think it will work. And what the hell gives with Microsoft's idea of opening Apple-like Microsoft stores? Come on, guys. Zune brown walls. Even Wal-Mart can beat that.
Away from Microhoo, we hit on the cloud's rise this week through a number of announcements, including Google's new software as a service push and Sun's GPL v2-happy Project Caroline. We also look at the list of top Linux contributors, Red Hat's position in the open source realm and a nifty hand-sized Linux server.
A fun show. Let me know what you think.
(And no, Ashlee, that's really not me breathing as I had it on mute the entire time except for when I was talking.)The Open Season podcast actually regained some respectability this week in Episode 13 with a guest appearance from Michael Cote of Redmonk, one of the industry's leading analyst firms. It proved to be one of the best shows we've recorded in many moons.
...[A] few of the highlights include our assessment of Microsoft's interoperability pact, BusinessWeek reporter Sarah Lacy's interview with Facebook's Mark Zombieberg, disappearing appointments in Zimbra, the evolution of Firefox, Matt Asay's grandmother using Ubuntu and, of course, Google's general evilness.
Fortunately, I wasn't up against the end of my quarter the way I was on the Dan Lyons podcast (Episode 12), so I actually enjoyed this one. I hope you will, too.
Well, Dave didn't think so, but Ashlee and I think the MacBook Air makes too many compromises in order to be skinny.
Of course, most of our time in the eleventh installment of Open Season was spent heckling Microsoft (Broken beliefs about open source, Yahoo! acquisition and what it means for the WAMP stack, etc.). Even my new crush, Sun, got an ample dose of pillorying (good natured, of course).
The rest revolved around XenSource, Oracle, Mac worship, Mozilla, shameless self-promotion, and the like.
P.S. There's a new video accompanying the podcast. Watch it to the end for the surprise....
