Open Source Security Revisited – With Enough Eyeballs, All Bugs Are Shallow

It is a common knowledge that, usually, Open Source projects are successful because of the developers scratching their personal itch. It often starts with a group of disgruntled developers frustrated with a proprietary software because it fails to satisfy their needs. The very fact that they are left helpless due to the absence of source [...]

Open Source As A SaaS Endgame – Digging A Bit More

I recently revisited my “open source as a SaaS endgame” theory quoting a news about another web app releasing their code under an open source license before shutting down the shop. As I do with many of my posts here in Cloud Ave, I was wearing my evangelist hat and it resulted in the crux [...]

Open Source As A SaaS Endgame – Storytlr Joins The Elite Group

Many societies believe in the idea of Afterlife. As far as the human life is concerned, I do not believe in this supernatural concepts. However, when it comes to software “lives”, I believe in eternity (a life without death). I believe that a software can live eternally without the death faced by the lesser mortals, [...]

Proprietary software is from dark ages

Image via Wikipedia Recently Dana Blankenhorn wrote on ZDNet blog titled Open Source is bad for vendors. In the post, he said the following Many of these vendor fears are wrapped up in the phrase “intellectual property.” What you do for me becomes my property. But why should it? Why should you, as an employer, continue [...]