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Making Money In Open Source

Linux · Linuxbusiness · 2001-11-01 10:12 · posted by Hemos · from the how-to-make-money-in-open-source dept. · 188 comments

Khalid writes "An interview with Sleepycat President and CEO, Michael Olson, it brings a lot of interesting information about their business model and licensing scheme. A lot of good ideas, when a lot of open source based companies are struggling for life. "
Simplicity In the Age Of The GUI

Tech · Graphics · 2001-09-12 05:57 · posted by timothy · from the decluttering dept. · 238 comments

evenprime writes: "Wired is running a story on Mark Hurst's extremely retro GoodEasy computing environment, and how it's old fashioned *nix approach to computing -- flat text, small simple programs that can be chained together -- increases user productivity" It's an interesting, hyper-simple approach, though any user outside of Mark's agency would have to apply some creative adaption. Every few months, I try to re-organize and simplify the documents and programs on my system, this looks like a good experiment for the next time.