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Recently someone asked me about OpenWashing. Let me share my thoughts here. OpenWashing is a derogatory term for companies who pretend to “do open source.” (We’ll discuss what that could mean.) The term is related to WhiteWashing (censoring information in order to “fix” history) and GreenWashing (portraying your product to be more environmentally sensitive than it [...]
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I finished reading Empowered last week and I share the following book review with you. I posted an edited version of this review on Amazon. I first want to disclose some information which may color my review. I received the book for free in return for a commitment to the authors to publish a review [...]
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Open Source, at it’s core, is a legal matter. Most people in the Open Source community don’t see it that way. But consider this. This is code. class HelloWorld { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println(“Hello World!”); } } If this was a bit longer and not so common it would be an example of “proprietary code” owned by my current [...]
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Having spent many years in a financial services company, I understand the culture of a highly regulated industry. We in the US regulate many industries — it is a reflection of our values. We regulate air travel because we want to fly safely. We regulate pharmaceuticals because we want our medicines to be safe. Safety is a high [...]
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Language impacts the way people think and behave. Last week Andy McAfee published a thoughtful blog post on the topic of the word “social” as it relates to business. It generated a lot of interesting comments. I hope you read it. Terminology is important, and I describe my thoughts about this (and in particular the [...]
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In one of the best-known scenes of The Matrix, a young boy in the garb of a monk reveals a stunning revelation to the main character – “There is no spoon“. This concept is the fodder for many philosophical explorations into illusion, quantum physics, eastern religions, and scriptwriting. It becomes clear as the movie progresses [...]
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Yesterday a client of mine shared with me the following link and asked for my comment. The article (from Infoworld) titled “IT snake oil: Six tech cure-alls that went bunk” describes six technologies that were oversold and under-delivered. The first was Artificial Intelligence (which struck a chord with me, as my undergraduate degree is in AI), [...]
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