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Open source and commercial “web solutions”

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2008-04-07

Web agencies promising outstanding web solutions trough our innovative text management system are all nonsense. Very few of these agencies have their own content management system (CMS), and they should all stop pretending otherwise. The product these companies are offering is nothing more than a themed (at best) version of an freely available open source publishing tool.

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Nokia aming for Opera?

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2008-01-28

Nokia have acquired Trolltech, the Norwegian company behind the open source Qt technology. A technology found in software products such as the KDE, Skype, and Opera. Most news site are focusing on how this will affect KDE and other open source projects. I do not think Nokia’s main goal with this acquisition is to get control over the desktop computing trough KDE, as the web is buzzing about today. I think their target is the mobile web browser market trough Opera, another Norwegian software developer dependent on Qt.

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Paying for open source for years and years

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2008-01-23

Open source developers need money. They need to get payed all their hard work. This is a problem I have been thinkin a lot about lately. But does anyone have a solution?

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Multimedia is failing as a form of entertainment

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2008-01-14

Digital multimedia is failing. There are so many competing formats, and it is so hard to get by leagal files. It has become too much an effort to buy a film or a song! If you were actually to find something, it would be in a format that would be not be accessible in just a few years. The industry must unite or digital multimedia will soon fail as a type of entertainment.

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