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Thursday, November 30, 2006

Bill Gates for President, good for Open Source?

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I know some will be surprised, but I have always been a Bill Gates fan. It might sound bizarre, since I am an open source guy at heart, but ...
Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Mobile Linux going up the stack with Trolltech Greensuite

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Today Trolltech announced the Greensuite Initiative with the support of some nice companies (among them, Funambol). The idea is simple: mov...
Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Palm and lessons from Apple

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Today, I happened to be at the Stanford Shopping Center for lunch. I stopped by the Palm store to see the Palm 680. The Palm store in Palo A...
Monday, November 20, 2006

Motorola buys Good: the Palm opportunity

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Motorola buying Good has been a strange transaction. Two things pop up, in my opinion: 1. It was announced on a Friday 2. It was announce...

An Ironman for open source

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In my post about " How to create a successful open source company ", I mentioned "Think IRONMAN" as one of the key eleme...
Friday, November 17, 2006

Why open source: viral marketing and visibility

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The second most asked question I get, when I talk about Funambol, is "why open source" (the first one being "how do you make ...
Wednesday, November 15, 2006

NewsForge: "open source software makes business sense"

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Nice article today by Nathan Willis on NewsForge on Funambol and our tight-rope walk. In particular, I like the closing statement: But Funa...
Monday, November 13, 2006

Sun opensourcing Java: it is all about mobile

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I have a privileged point of view, when it comes to Sun and Motorola, since I often talk to both. It is interesting how the press really mis...
Sunday, November 12, 2006

My Mobile 2.0 Manifesto

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Last week I was invited to speak at the Mobile2.0 event in San Francisco. It had all the right elements for a starting point of a revolutio...
Wednesday, November 08, 2006

After election day...

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Thanks to everyone who voted for this blog and made it in the  Top 20 Wireless Industry Blogs  ("that certainly represent the crème de...
Tuesday, November 07, 2006

OpenMoko: how you change the game in mobile

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At the Open Source in Mobile conference, today Sean finally announced OpenMoko . He was the "mystery speaker" at the conference....
Sunday, November 05, 2006

I am a Linus Fonero

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A few days ago, it was Freedom Friday in San Francisco. The FON guys were giving away their routers for free. Good marketing stunt. At lea...
Friday, November 03, 2006

Thin and Fat (clients)

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An article caught my attention today . It talks about Jonathan Schwartz, Sun CEO. I already expressed my admiration for him in a previous po...
Thursday, November 02, 2006

It is raining...

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Today it is raining in Silicon Valley. For us living here, it is a major disappointment. We pay very high rents to stay here. We pay for the...
Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Tales from a user

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I was browsing around sites and I found one comment titled "How to do over the air sync with your own server" that matches nicely...
Sunday, October 29, 2006

Phone Sniper launched: "You give them cash???"

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A few weeks ago, we launched a program called Code Sniper . The goal was to accelerate development of open source code from the community,...
Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Red Hat, Oracle and (again) dual licensing

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A week ago I was writing about RedHat ... Quoting myself (I feel can do it, since just a week passed, otherwise I would look like a old grum...
Sunday, October 22, 2006

Microsoft to dominate mobile? They do not think so

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I was looking at an article today titled " Microsoft sees fast growth in Windows phones: report " and I started to wonder a bit ab...
Friday, October 20, 2006

Mobile TV and the inevitable lack of bandwidth

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As you might remember, I am now a fan of mobile TV . No, I do not believe I will spend hours watching TV on my phone, but I feel I occasio...
Thursday, October 19, 2006

I want to thank my mom again (but I need you this time)

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Ok, you win something and you get greedy. It happens. I want to win the World Cup again, for example, but I have to wait... I just found out...
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