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[News] Open Source Foster Innovation; Linux Makes Security Pluggable

  • Subject: [News] Open Source Foster Innovation; Linux Makes Security Pluggable
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:13:51 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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Open Source Software: Do You Have Time to Exploit It?

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| The prevailing wisdom regarding open source communities is that they foster 
| innovation in software. Members of the open source community not only share 
| development code, they compete in a meritocracy for bragging rights on key 
| features, patches, and contributions that they deliver at breakneck speed.   
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http://www.bmighty.com/hardware_software/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=202103742

Pluggable Security

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| While James had no complaints about Smack itself, he expressed concerns 
| regarding the pluggable nature of LSM, which is used by Smack, 
| cautioning, "if LSM remains, security will never be a first class citizen of 
| the kernel," adding, "on a broader scale, we'll miss the potential of Linux 
| having a coherent, semantically strong security architecture." He noted that 
| he'd rather see SELinux as the sole Linux security framework, "merging Smack, 
| however, would lock the kernel into the LSM API. Presently, as SELinux is the 
| only in-tree user, LSM can still be removed."       
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http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Pluggable_Security


Related:

Innovation: The REAL Killer App

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| There is no true innovation in Windows Vista. Microsoft has spent
| years developing a product that nobody cared about or wanted. All
| Microsoft was developing was the operating system they needed to
| perpetuate their Windows franchise. After long hold ups in
| development, this has left their Windows revenues at a trickle.
| The sad thing is the GNU/Linux camp has done little to combat
| this deficiency in innovation. They have been more concerned
| with creating an equivalent product at a better price rather than
| a better product at a better price. Sure GNU/Linux is a better
| product due to its inherent stability, performance and security,
| but these aren't the features that home consumers migrate
| platforms for. True innovation, such as improvements in usability,
| is the only way one can convince consumers to choose your product
| over a stagnant entrenched one like Windows. It is simple free
| market economics, the better product at the best price will win. 
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http://free2code.blogspot.com/2007/04/innovation-real-killer-app.html


Change and development with open source

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| Innovation goes hand in hand with open source software. Open source software 
| builds on the innovative nature of people; it comes from people's desire to 
| make something better. It also gives people the skills and resources to 
| become innovative with software.   
| 
| This is not abstract speculation; a recent report from a group of corporate 
| CIOs states, 'faster product cycles are seen as a big advantage for open 
| source - CIOs believe that product innovation is faster in open source'.   
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http://www.nccmembership.co.uk/pooled/articles/BF_WEBART/view.asp?Q=BF_WEBART_292509


Apple's Annual Developer's Conference Disappoints For Its Lack of Innovation

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| Apple shares fell 3.45% yesterday on general investor disappointment 
| with what was perceived as a lack of innovation at Apple's annual 
| software developer's conference [WWDC].
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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070612/38015_id.html?.v=1


Balancing open source risk and the total innovation opportunity

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| This week I have been banging on and on about the total
| innovation opportunity of using open source software as an
| enterprise development platform.
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/01/balancing_open.html


Can you leave innovation to the customer?

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| Open source innovation: how does it work?
| 
| Ideas or problems are made freely available to anyone who can be bothered to 
| look at them. They are then aired in online forums, meaning that glitches are 
| ironed out in record time, and the forum creator charges to a manufacturer to 
| develop the prototype and get the product onto the shelves.   
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http://blogs.theage.com.au/innovator/archives/2007/09/can_you_leave_i.html

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