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Log: Planet run at Thu Jan 22 12:00:13 GMT 2009 File Changes: Directory: /marketing/www/planet/ ================================= File [changed]: atom.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/atom.xml?r1=1.1420&r2=1.1421 Delta lines: +41 -33 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2009-01-22 06:00:41+0000 1.1420 +++ atom.xml 2009-01-22 12:00:43+0000 1.1421 @@ -5,9 +5,42 @@ <link rel="self" href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml"/> <link href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/"/> <id>http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml</id> - <updated>2009-01-22T06:00:27+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-22T12:00:30+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> + <entry xml:lang="en"> + <title type="html">The Economics of Free: For Free</title> + <link href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/22/the-economics-of-free-for-free/"/> + <id>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=660</id> + <updated>2009-01-22T10:21:09+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><p>Remember the <a href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/09/bbc-r4-in-business-08012009/">short piece</a> I posted about the Radio 4 programme &#8220;In Business&#8221; a couple of weeks ago? Well, very kindly, the programme&#8217;s editor has provided me with a transcript of programme to</p> +<blockquote><p>please use as you wish, but it has not been checked for accuracy. Good luck.</p></blockquote> +<p>I have just read and listened again and didn&#8217;t find anything glaring although I did fix one rather amusing typo: &#8220;Linux Colonel&#8221; to &#8220;Linux Kernel&#8221;. It was sent to me as a Microsoft .doc file. I opened it in <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/" target="_blank">OpenOffice.org</a> and exported it as a PDF so it should be readable by virtually everyone.</p> +<p>This programme does provide some excellent answers to the types of questions we repeatedly get asked in our day-to-day business:</p> +<ul> +<li>&#8220;How do they/you make money from Open Source&#8221;</li> +<li>&#8220;Why should you/they give it away?&#8221;</li> +</ul> +<p>So for those of you who get asked these sorts of questions and would like some non-technobable answers from a rather reputable source to use, the transcript can be downloaded in it&#8217;s entirety, for free, from our <a title="The Economics of Free" href="http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com/resources/articles/the-economics-of-free.html" target="_blank">website here</a>. On that page, there is also a link to the BBC&#8217;s permanent archive so the podcast can be retrieved to. <em>As an interesting titbit, in his email with me, the editor said that about 600k people download the programme every month!</em></p> +<p>And just to whet your appetite, here is quite a nice quote from Chris Anderson - the editor of Wired&#8230;</p> +<blockquote><p>&#8230; Microsoftâs financial success is about taking a product whose underlying economics are zero, the marginal costs of reproducing software is zero, and charging $300 for it. You know incredible net profit margins. Unfortunately, economics always wins. People recognised that the underlying economics of distributing software were zero and so they were like okay, so Microsoft is getting monopoly profits because they are in fact a monopoly. What we need to do is break the monopoly. Not, as it turns out, by regulation and regulator, but instead the marketplace broke the monopoly.</p></blockquote> +<p>If you are involved in any way with the promotion of FOSS and/or CC then this really is well worth listening too and or reading,</p> +<p>And although the editor didn&#8217;t provide any specific license conditions with the document, I plan to repsect the BBC&#8217;s copyright, and provide suitable attribution when and where we use snippets etc; something like this <a title="CC-by-sa" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/uk/" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/uk/</a> perhaps.</p> +<!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded BEGIN --><div class="social_bookmark"><em>Tell Someone Else!</em><br /><a class="social_img" href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/22/the-economics-of-free-for-free/&title=The+Economics+of+Free%3A+For+Free" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Del.icio.us"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/delicious.png" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Del.icio.us" alt="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Del.icio.us" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/22/the-economics-of-free-for-free/&title=The+Economics+of+Free%3A+For+Free" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to digg"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/digg.png" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to digg" alt="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to digg" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.technorati.com/faves?add=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/22/the-economics-of-free-for-free/" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Technorati"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/technorati.png" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Technorati" alt="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Technorati" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/22/the-economics-of-free-for-free/&title=The+Economics+of+Free%3A+For+Free" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Stumble Upon"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/stumbleupon.png" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Stumble Upon" alt="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Stumble Upon" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&output=popup&bkmk=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/22/the-economics-of-free-for-free/&title=The+Economics+of+Free%3A+For+Free" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Google Bookmarks"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/google.png" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Google Bookmarks" alt="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Google Bookmarks" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.bloglines.com/sub/http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/22/the-economics-of-free-for-free/" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Bloglines"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/bloglines.png" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Bloglines" alt="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Bloglines" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://slashdot.org/bookmark.pl?title=The+Economics+of+Free%3A+For+Free&url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/22/the-economics-of-free-for-free/" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to SlashDot"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/slashdot.png" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to SlashDot" alt="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to SlashDot" /></a></div> +<!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded END --></content> + <author> + <name>Alan Lord</name> + <uri>http://www.theopensourcerer.com</uri> + </author> + <source> + <title type="html">The Open Sourcerer » OpenOffice.org</title> + <subtitle type="html">The Magic of Open Source</subtitle> + <link rel="self" href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/tag/openofficeorg/feed/"/> + <id>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/tag/openofficeorg/feed/</id> + <updated>2009-01-22T12:00:30+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + <entry> <title type="html">IBM and OpenOffice.org</title> <link href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/01/ibm-and-openofficeorg.html"/> @@ -100,7 +133,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2009-01-22T06:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-22T12:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -124,7 +157,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2009-01-22T06:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-22T12:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -165,7 +198,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">The Magic of Open Source</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/tag/openofficeorg/feed/"/> <id>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/tag/openofficeorg/feed/</id> - <updated>2009-01-21T18:00:42+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-22T12:00:30+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -249,7 +282,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2009-01-22T06:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-22T12:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -307,7 +340,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2009-01-22T06:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-22T12:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -375,7 +408,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2009-01-22T06:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-22T12:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -450,7 +483,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2009-01-22T06:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-22T12:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -495,29 +528,4 @@ </source> </entry> - <entry> - <title type="html">24 hour QA chat at 13th of January 2009</title> - <link href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/24_hour_qa_chat_at"/> - <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/9efaf54f67ebed1b</id> - <updated>2009-01-08T16:03:15+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><div> - <h1>Welcome in the QA project of OpenOffice.org</h1> - <p>If you are interested in working in the QA project you can participate in the next 24 hour QA chat at 13 <sup>th</sup> of January 2009. This is monthly chat with experts from the QA community where everybody can work on issues in <a href="http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/query.cgi">IssueTracker</a> (bug tracking system for OOo) with the help of these experts. The meetings have special topics, which will announced on a <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Issue_hunting_party">wiki page</a>. The chat will take place at IRC ( <a href="javascript:void(0);">irc://irc.freenode.net/</a>) in the group #qa.openoffice.org and will start at 10:00 am UTC.</p> - <h1>What's up in the next QA chat?</h1> - <p>Next Tuesday the 13th of January the QA community will have their first Issue-Clean-Up-Chat in 2009. Stefan Baltzer <a href="http://qa.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=11547">announced</a> that meeting on the QA mailing list in December. One of the topics at that chat will be to verify and to close all fixed issues in OOo 3.0.1. When there are changes in the topics or if you need additional information, please take a look at the relevant Wiki page :</p> - <p> <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Issue_hunting_party#Issue_hunting_party_13th_of_January_2009">http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Issue_hunting_party#Issue_hunting_party_13th_of_January_2009</a> </p> - <p>See you in the Chat!</p><br /> - </div></content> - <author> - <name>Thorsten Ziehm</name> - <uri></uri> - </author> - <source> - <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> - <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> - <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2009-01-22T06:00:17+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - </feed> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.1427&r2=1.1428 Delta lines: +30 -23 --------------------- --- index.html 2009-01-22 06:00:42+0000 1.1427 +++ index.html 2009-01-22 12:00:43+0000 1.1428 @@ -37,8 +37,37 @@ <a href="rss20.xml"><img src="rss2.gif" alt="Link to RSS 2 feed" /></a> </div> -<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: January 22, 2009 06:00 AM GMT</em></p> +<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: January 22, 2009 12:00 PM GMT</em></p> +<h2>January 22, 2009</h2> +<h3> +<a href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com"; title="The Open Sourcerer » OpenOffice.org"> +Alan Lord</a> : +<a href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/22/the-economics-of-free-for-free/";> +The Economics of Free: For Free</a> +</h3> +<p> +<p>Remember the <a href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/09/bbc-r4-in-business-08012009/";>short piece</a> I posted about the Radio 4 programme “In Business” a couple of weeks ago? Well, very kindly, the programme’s editor has provided me with a transcript of programme to</p> +<blockquote><p>please use as you wish, but it has not been checked for accuracy. Good luck.</p></blockquote> +<p>I have just read and listened again and didn’t find anything glaring although I did fix one rather amusing typo: “Linux Colonel” to “Linux Kernel”. It was sent to me as a Microsoft .doc file. I opened it in <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/"; target="_blank">OpenOffice.org</a> and exported it as a PDF so it should be readable by virtually everyone.</p> +<p>This programme does provide some excellent answers to the types of questions we repeatedly get asked in our day-to-day business:</p> +<ul> +<li>“How do they/you make money from Open Source”</li> +<li>“Why should you/they give it away?”</li> +</ul> +<p>So for those of you who get asked these sorts of questions and would like some non-technobable answers from a rather reputable source to use, the transcript can be downloaded in it’s entirety, for free, from our <a title="The Economics of Free" href="http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com/resources/articles/the-economics-of-free.html"; target="_blank">website here</a>. On that page, there is also a link to the BBC’s permanent archive so the podcast can be retrieved to. <em>As an interesting titbit, in his email with me, the editor said that about 600k people download the programme every month!</em></p> +<p>And just to whet your appetite, here is quite a nice quote from Chris Anderson - the editor of Wired…</p> +<blockquote><p>… Microsoftâs financial success is about taking a product whose underlying economics are zero, the marginal costs of reproducing software is zero, and charging $300 for it. You know incredible net profit margins. Unfortunately, economics always wins. People recognised that the underlying economics of distributing software were zero and so they were like okay, so Microsoft is getting monopoly profits because they are in fact a monopoly. What we need to do is break the monopoly. Not, as it turns out, by regulation and regulator, but instead the marketplace broke the monopoly.</p></blockquote> +<p>If you are involved in any way with the promotion of FOSS and/or CC then this really is well worth listening too and or reading,</p> +<p>And although the editor didn’t provide any specific license conditions with the document, I plan to repsect the BBC’s copyright, and provide suitable attribution when and where we use snippets etc; something like this <a title="CC-by-sa" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/uk/"; target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/uk/</a> perhaps.</p> +<!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded BEGIN --><div class="social_bookmark"><em>Tell Someone Else!</em><br /><a class="social_img" href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/22/the-economics-of-free-for-free/&title=The+Economics+of+Free%3A+For+Free"; title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Del.icio.us"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/delicious.png"; title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Del.icio.us" alt="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Del.icio.us" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/22/the-economics-of-free-for-free/&title=The+Economics+of+Free%3A+For+Free"; title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to digg"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/digg.png"; title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to digg" alt="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to digg" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.technorati.com/faves?add=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/22/the-economics-of-free-for-free/"; title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Technorati"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/technorati.png"; title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Technorati" alt="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Technorati" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/22/the-economics-of-free-for-free/&title=The+Economics+of+Free%3A+For+Free"; title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Stumble Upon"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/stumbleupon.png"; title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Stumble Upon" alt="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Stumble Upon" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&output=popup&bkmk=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/22/the-economics-of-free-for-free/&title=The+Economics+of+Free%3A+For+Free"; title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Google Bookmarks"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/google.png"; title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Google Bookmarks" alt="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Google Bookmarks" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.bloglines.com/sub/http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/22/the-economics-of-free-for-free/"; title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Bloglines"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/bloglines.png"; title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Bloglines" alt="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Bloglines" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://slashdot.org/bookmark.pl?title=The+Economics+of+Free%3A+For+Free&url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/22/the-economics-of-free-for-free/"; title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to SlashDot"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/slashdot.png"; title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to SlashDot" alt="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to SlashDot" /></a></div> +<!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded END --></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/22/the-economics-of-free-for-free/";>by Alan Lord at January 22, 2009 10:21 AM GMT</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> <h2>January 21, 2009</h2> <h3> <a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/search/label/OpenOffice.org"; title="Lodahl's blog"> @@ -442,28 +471,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<h2>January 08, 2009</h2> -<h3> -<a href="" title="jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader"> -GullFOSS</a> : -<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/24_hour_qa_chat_at";> -24 hour QA chat at 13th of January 2009</a> -</h3> -<p> -<div> - <h1>Welcome in the QA project of OpenOffice.org</h1> - <p>If you are interested in working in the QA project you can participate in the next 24 hour QA chat at 13 <sup>th</sup> of January 2009. This is monthly chat with experts from the QA community where everybody can work on issues in <a href="http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/query.cgi";>IssueTracker</a> (bug tracking system for OOo) with the help of these experts. The meetings have special topics, which will announced on a <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Issue_hunting_party";>wiki page</a>. The chat will take place at IRC ( <a href="javascript:void(0);">irc://irc.freenode.net/</a>) in the group #qa.openoffice.org and will start at 10:00 am UTC.</p> - <h1>What's up in the next QA chat?</h1> - <p>Next Tuesday the 13th of January the QA community will have their first Issue-Clean-Up-Chat in 2009. Stefan Baltzer <a href="http://qa.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=11547";>announced</a> that meeting on the QA mailing list in December. One of the topics at that chat will be to verify and to close all fixed issues in OOo 3.0.1. When there are changes in the topics or if you need additional information, please take a look at the relevant Wiki page :</p> - <p> <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Issue_hunting_party#Issue_hunting_party_13th_of_January_2009";>http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Issue_hunting_party#Issue_hunting_party_13th_of_January_2009</a> </p> - <p>See you in the Chat!</p><br /> - </div></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/24_hour_qa_chat_at";>by Thorsten Ziehm at January 08, 2009 04:03 PM GMT</a></em> -</p> -<br /> -<hr /> -<br /> <a id="disclaimer" name="disclaimer"></a> <p><em>Disclaimer: all views expressed on this page are those of the individual contributors, and may not reflect the views of the File [changed]: opml.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/opml.xml?r1=1.1420&r2=1.1421 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2009-01-22 06:00:42+0000 1.1420 +++ opml.xml 2009-01-22 12:00:44+0000 1.1421 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Marketing Planet</title> - <dateModified>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 06:00:28 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:00:30 +0000</dateModified> <ownerName>Marketing Project</ownerName> <ownerEmail>[email protected]</ownerEmail> </head> File [changed]: rss10.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss10.xml?r1=1.606&r2=1.607 Delta lines: +21 -15 --------------------- --- rss10.xml 2009-01-21 18:00:54+0000 1.606 +++ rss10.xml 2009-01-22 12:00:44+0000 1.607 @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=660"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-7315913127662280081" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=971"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=968"; /> @@ -32,11 +33,30 @@ <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/0bd4dfc3247023f2" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=951"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-5464996476203761696" /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/9efaf54f67ebed1b" /> </rdf:Seq> </items> </channel> +<item rdf:about="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=660";> + <title>Alan Lord: The Economics of Free: For Free</title> + <link>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/22/the-economics-of-free-for-free/</link> + <content:encoded><p>Remember the <a href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/09/bbc-r4-in-business-08012009/">short piece</a> I posted about the Radio 4 programme &#8220;In Business&#8221; a couple of weeks ago? Well, very kindly, the programme&#8217;s editor has provided me with a transcript of programme to</p> +<blockquote><p>please use as you wish, but it has not been checked for accuracy. Good luck.</p></blockquote> +<p>I have just read and listened again and didn&#8217;t find anything glaring although I did fix one rather amusing typo: &#8220;Linux Colonel&#8221; to &#8220;Linux Kernel&#8221;. It was sent to me as a Microsoft .doc file. I opened it in <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/" target="_blank">OpenOffice.org</a> and exported it as a PDF so it should be readable by virtually everyone.</p> +<p>This programme does provide some excellent answers to the types of questions we repeatedly get asked in our day-to-day business:</p> +<ul> +<li>&#8220;How do they/you make money from Open Source&#8221;</li> +<li>&#8220;Why should you/they give it away?&#8221;</li> +</ul> +<p>So for those of you who get asked these sorts of questions and would like some non-technobable answers from a rather reputable source to use, the transcript can be downloaded in it&#8217;s entirety, for free, from our <a title="The Economics of Free" href="http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com/resources/articles/the-economics-of-free.html" target="_blank">website here</a>. On that page, there is also a link to the BBC&#8217;s permanent archive so the podcast can be retrieved to. <em>As an interesting titbit, in his email with me, the editor said that about 600k people download the programme every month!</em></p> +<p>And just to whet your appetite, here is quite a nice quote from Chris Anderson - the editor of Wired&#8230;</p> +<blockquote><p>&#8230; Microsoftâs financial success is about taking a product whose underlying economics are zero, the marginal costs of reproducing software is zero, and charging $300 for it. You know incredible net profit margins. Unfortunately, economics always wins. People recognised that the underlying economics of distributing software were zero and so they were like okay, so Microsoft is getting monopoly profits because they are in fact a monopoly. What we need to do is break the monopoly. Not, as it turns out, by regulation and regulator, but instead the marketplace broke the monopoly.</p></blockquote> +<p>If you are involved in any way with the promotion of FOSS and/or CC then this really is well worth listening too and or reading,</p> +<p>And although the editor didn&#8217;t provide any specific license conditions with the document, I plan to repsect the BBC&#8217;s copyright, and provide suitable attribution when and where we use snippets etc; something like this <a title="CC-by-sa" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/uk/" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/uk/</a> perhaps.</p> +<!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded BEGIN --><div class="social_bookmark"><em>Tell Someone Else!</em><br /><a class="social_img" href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/22/the-economics-of-free-for-free/&title=The+Economics+of+Free%3A+For+Free" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Del.icio.us"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/delicious.png" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Del.icio.us" alt="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Del.icio.us" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/22/the-economics-of-free-for-free/&title=The+Economics+of+Free%3A+For+Free" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to digg"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/digg.png" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to digg" alt="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to digg" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.technorati.com/faves?add=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/22/the-economics-of-free-for-free/" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Technorati"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/technorati.png" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Technorati" alt="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Technorati" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/22/the-economics-of-free-for-free/&title=The+Economics+of+Free%3A+For+Free" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Stumble Upon"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/stumbleupon.png" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Stumble Upon" alt="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Stumble Upon" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&output=popup&bkmk=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/22/the-economics-of-free-for-free/&title=The+Economics+of+Free%3A+For+Free" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Google Bookmarks"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/google.png" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Google Bookmarks" alt="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Google Bookmarks" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.bloglines.com/sub/http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/22/the-economics-of-free-for-free/" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Bloglines"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/bloglines.png" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Bloglines" alt="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Bloglines" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://slashdot.org/bookmark.pl?title=The+Economics+of+Free%3A+For+Free&url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/22/the-economics-of-free-for-free/" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to SlashDot"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/slashdot.png" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to SlashDot" alt="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to SlashDot" /></a></div> +<!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded END --></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2009-01-22T10:21:09+00:00</dc:date> +</item> <item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-7315913127662280081"> <title>Leif Lodahl: IBM and OpenOffice.org</title> <link>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/01/ibm-and-openofficeorg.html</link> @@ -288,19 +308,5 @@ <dc:date>2009-01-12T10:43:08+00:00</dc:date> <dc:creator>floeff</dc:creator> </item> -<item rdf:about="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/9efaf54f67ebed1b"> - <title>GullFOSS: 24 hour QA chat at 13th of January 2009</title> - <link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/24_hour_qa_chat_at</link> - <content:encoded><div> - <h1>Welcome in the QA project of OpenOffice.org</h1> - <p>If you are interested in working in the QA project you can participate in the next 24 hour QA chat at 13 <sup>th</sup> of January 2009. This is monthly chat with experts from the QA community where everybody can work on issues in <a href="http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/query.cgi">IssueTracker</a> (bug tracking system for OOo) with the help of these experts. The meetings have special topics, which will announced on a <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Issue_hunting_party">wiki page</a>. The chat will take place at IRC ( <a href="javascript:void(0);">irc://irc.freenode.net/</a>) in the group #qa.openoffice.org and will start at 10:00 am UTC.</p> - <h1>What's up in the next QA chat?</h1> - <p>Next Tuesday the 13th of January the QA community will have their first Issue-Clean-Up-Chat in 2009. Stefan Baltzer <a href="http://qa.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=11547">announced</a> that meeting on the QA mailing list in December. One of the topics at that chat will be to verify and to close all fixed issues in OOo 3.0.1. When there are changes in the topics or if you need additional information, please take a look at the relevant Wiki page :</p> - <p> <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Issue_hunting_party#Issue_hunting_party_13th_of_January_2009">http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Issue_hunting_party#Issue_hunting_party_13th_of_January_2009</a> </p> - <p>See you in the Chat!</p><br /> - </div></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2009-01-08T16:03:15+00:00</dc:date> - <dc:creator>Thorsten Ziehm</dc:creator> -</item> </rdf:RDF> File [changed]: rss20.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml?r1=1.606&r2=1.607 Delta lines: +21 -14 --------------------- --- rss20.xml 2009-01-21 18:00:55+0000 1.606 +++ rss20.xml 2009-01-22 12:00:44+0000 1.607 @@ -8,6 +8,27 @@ <description>Marketing Planet - http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/</description> <item> + <title>Alan Lord: The Economics of Free: For Free</title> + <guid>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=660</guid> + <link>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/22/the-economics-of-free-for-free/</link> + <description><p>Remember the <a href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/09/bbc-r4-in-business-08012009/">short piece</a> I posted about the Radio 4 programme &#8220;In Business&#8221; a couple of weeks ago? Well, very kindly, the programme&#8217;s editor has provided me with a transcript of programme to</p> +<blockquote><p>please use as you wish, but it has not been checked for accuracy. Good luck.</p></blockquote> +<p>I have just read and listened again and didn&#8217;t find anything glaring although I did fix one rather amusing typo: &#8220;Linux Colonel&#8221; to &#8220;Linux Kernel&#8221;. It was sent to me as a Microsoft .doc file. I opened it in <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/" target="_blank">OpenOffice.org</a> and exported it as a PDF so it should be readable by virtually everyone.</p> +<p>This programme does provide some excellent answers to the types of questions we repeatedly get asked in our day-to-day business:</p> +<ul> +<li>&#8220;How do they/you make money from Open Source&#8221;</li> +<li>&#8220;Why should you/they give it away?&#8221;</li> +</ul> +<p>So for those of you who get asked these sorts of questions and would like some non-technobable answers from a rather reputable source to use, the transcript can be downloaded in it&#8217;s entirety, for free, from our <a title="The Economics of Free" href="http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com/resources/articles/the-economics-of-free.html" target="_blank">website here</a>. On that page, there is also a link to the BBC&#8217;s permanent archive so the podcast can be retrieved to. <em>As an interesting titbit, in his email with me, the editor said that about 600k people download the programme every month!</em></p> +<p>And just to whet your appetite, here is quite a nice quote from Chris Anderson - the editor of Wired&#8230;</p> +<blockquote><p>&#8230; Microsoftâs financial success is about taking a product whose underlying economics are zero, the marginal costs of reproducing software is zero, and charging $300 for it. You know incredible net profit margins. Unfortunately, economics always wins. People recognised that the underlying economics of distributing software were zero and so they were like okay, so Microsoft is getting monopoly profits because they are in fact a monopoly. What we need to do is break the monopoly. Not, as it turns out, by regulation and regulator, but instead the marketplace broke the monopoly.</p></blockquote> +<p>If you are involved in any way with the promotion of FOSS and/or CC then this really is well worth listening too and or reading,</p> +<p>And although the editor didn&#8217;t provide any specific license conditions with the document, I plan to repsect the BBC&#8217;s copyright, and provide suitable attribution when and where we use snippets etc; something like this <a title="CC-by-sa" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/uk/" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/uk/</a> perhaps.</p> +<!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded BEGIN --><div class="social_bookmark"><em>Tell Someone Else!</em><br /><a class="social_img" href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/22/the-economics-of-free-for-free/&title=The+Economics+of+Free%3A+For+Free" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Del.icio.us"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/delicious.png" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Del.icio.us" alt="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Del.icio.us" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/22/the-economics-of-free-for-free/&title=The+Economics+of+Free%3A+For+Free" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to digg"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/digg.png" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to digg" alt="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to digg" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.technorati.com/faves?add=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/22/the-economics-of-free-for-free/" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Technorati"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/technorati.png" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Technorati" alt="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Technorati" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/22/the-economics-of-free-for-free/&title=The+Economics+of+Free%3A+For+Free" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Stumble Upon"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/stumbleupon.png" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Stumble Upon" alt="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Stumble Upon" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&output=popup&bkmk=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/22/the-economics-of-free-for-free/&title=The+Economics+of+Free%3A+For+Free" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Google Bookmarks"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/google.png" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Google Bookmarks" alt="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Google Bookmarks" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.bloglines.com/sub/http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/22/the-economics-of-free-for-free/" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Bloglines"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/bloglines.png" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Bloglines" alt="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Bloglines" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://slashdot.org/bookmark.pl?title=The+Economics+of+Free%3A+For+Free&url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/22/the-economics-of-free-for-free/" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to SlashDot"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/slashdot.png" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to SlashDot" alt="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to SlashDot" /></a></div> +<!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded END --></description> + <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:21:09 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> <title>Leif Lodahl: IBM and OpenOffice.org</title> <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-7315913127662280081</guid> <link>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/01/ibm-and-openofficeorg.html</link> @@ -271,20 +292,6 @@ <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:43:08 +0000</pubDate> <author>[email protected] (floeff)</author> </item> -<item> - <title>GullFOSS: 24 hour QA chat at 13th of January 2009</title> - <guid>tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/9efaf54f67ebed1b</guid> - <link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/24_hour_qa_chat_at</link> - <description><div> - <h1>Welcome in the QA project of OpenOffice.org</h1> - <p>If you are interested in working in the QA project you can participate in the next 24 hour QA chat at 13 <sup>th</sup> of January 2009. This is monthly chat with experts from the QA community where everybody can work on issues in <a href="http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/query.cgi">IssueTracker</a> (bug tracking system for OOo) with the help of these experts. The meetings have special topics, which will announced on a <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Issue_hunting_party">wiki page</a>. The chat will take place at IRC ( <a href="javascript:void(0);">irc://irc.freenode.net/</a>) in the group #qa.openoffice.org and will start at 10:00 am UTC.</p> - <h1>What's up in the next QA chat?</h1> - <p>Next Tuesday the 13th of January the QA community will have their first Issue-Clean-Up-Chat in 2009. Stefan Baltzer <a href="http://qa.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=11547">announced</a> that meeting on the QA mailing list in December. One of the topics at that chat will be to verify and to close all fixed issues in OOo 3.0.1. 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