没有想到微软会用黑屏来对付盗版。尽管这种方式，用户可以轻易破解。但是，对安全的担心，特别是自动更新的关闭，当然会引起用户的恐慌。然而在网上交易必须使用 IE 的情况下，用户必须有一个 IE 浏览器来支持一些交易类的ActiveX控件。
机会在哪里？

推广 Ubuntu 的桌面系统
推广 Open Office
推广使用 FireFox
尽快开发一个能在 Linux 上运行的 IE 浏览器，能支持 ActiveX 控件。(dll 文件）
Linux 上的 Google 拼音输入法
…

下载中文版 Open Office :  http://zh.openoffice.org/new/zh_cn/downloads.html

可以替换微软以及其他厂商软件的10大 Linux 上的 Office 产品：(摘自：TechRepublic )

#1: OpenOffice
This one goes without saying, offering word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, database management, drawing, and Web page editing. Add to that the ability to read and write […]

在 Interview with Scott McNealy 这篇采访中， Scott 谈到开放源码对产业的影响时，对边际成本做了这样的描述：
I also believe basic economic theory says that if the marginal cost of distribution and manufacturing is zero and the marginal cost of development is near zero as you share development with the rest of the world, then the cost of the product is going to tend towards […]

经常要安装一些 Perl  模块， Life with CPAN 提供了一些操作 CPAN 的方法，很实用。

很长时间没有   Blog 这类的内容了。 看到了这篇文章，感觉有点意思， 记录下来。
作者是这样讽刺当时的 Unisys 的 CEO 的：
In the pre-SCO era, people were outraged and wondered if Unisys’s CEO had gone insane (to me, he just looked like he had a very, very low IQ and a very big problem managing his company’s finance and marketing). In our post-SCO era, we are just glad […]

China Great Wall is so strong that it always block some open source web site like sf.net and some other content censored site like Google and other blog sites. But this time the government block php.net is rather ridiculous.
This morning when viewing my own generated LAMP version RSS, I found PHP version […]

eWeek 接连几篇文章贬 SCO 。
满有意思的。 
SCO 在诉讼上预提了很多费用。 这场官司何时了阿！

D-Day Arrives for SCO

SCO Fattens Its War Chest

SCO Starts to Show Its Cards

SCO Isn’t Going Away Anytime Soon

IBM Drops Patent Counterclaims in SCO Case

SCO maintains that it will win its case against IBM, which is now
scheduled to go to court in February 2007, and against Novell, which is
to […]

开源的内容管理系统( CMS ) Alfresco 发表了。
下载地址：http://www.alfresco.org/download.html
Alfresco is provided as a Tomcat bundle that includes Tomcat, as a
JBoss bundle that includes JBoss and JBoss portal and as source code.
All downloads are available in zip or tar.gz format.

这个世界上人们的需求是多样的， 面对压力， Oracle 肯定要做出一种姿态。
MySQL is the most popular open-source database among developers,
according to a recent Evans Data study. IBM earlier this month released
a free version of its own DB2 database as part of a PHP development
package. And Microsoft intends to ship a free version of SQL Server
2005, called Express, next month.
对于本月初收购 InnoDB ， Oracle […]

redhat 上的一段 3分钟的视频，开放源码的里程碑。

Open source is inevitable

After years of fierce competition, Microsoft and Sun have decided to
settle lawsuits and set aside their differences. Why? The answer won’t
surprise those who know Linux and open source. Today the customer is in
charge. See what happened, how history and the open source movement has
helped bring us to where we are […]

今天看了些关于 社会网络的网志， 看了 Yahoo 360 度， Mutiply 等。 并试用了 Yahoo   的心智搜索 (Mindset) ，敲入了 FreeLAMP ，不想看到了一个新的域名：  freelamp.net ，我想自己是没有理由说人家拷贝，侵权什么的，虽然他的 FreeLAMP.net 的前面几个 FreeLAMP 和我一样。 whois 数据显示该站站长来自西安，服务器在上海。 该 IP 地址： 218.83.155.86 下有 23 个网站。 2005年4月10日注册，2006年4月10日到期。
服务器的空间提供是一家西安的公司。

从 1993年开始 Larry McVoy 便是 Linus Torvalds 的亲密战友，维护着 Linux 操作系统。 但是最近他猛烈攻击开源模式。认为 "Open source as a business model, in isolation, is pretty much unsustainable," 。