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Apple Switcher blunder into a GUI trap…

July 29, 2005 | In Mac | No Comments

You are an “Apple Switcher”? Please, be careful with your first mouse clicks on Mac OSX!

The dialog buttons have a other order - the default action button is mostly on the right side.

Calculating the True Price of Software

July 27, 2005 | In Papers | No Comments

Therefore, the major difference in worldview between open source advocates and proprietary software license advocates is explainable as a differing opinion on the correct value of the volatility of maintenance and upgrade pricing. People who believe that the pricing on maintenance is stable and unlikely to change see greater intrinsic value in the software. People who fear that the pricing is subject to large fluctuations see no intrinsic value in the up-front license; stripped of the options, the license value approaches $0.

For the open source movement, perhaps a better way to position the change that OSS is making is this: we’re converting warrants on future maintenance and enhancements into options, which means that instead of having a sole supplier (warrants), we have created a third-party market (options) of these derivatives.

How capitalistic is that?

by Robert Lefkowitz (link to article)

Software visualisiert Entwicklung von Wiki-Inhalten

July 22, 2005 | In Tools, KM | No Comments

IBM stellt “History Flow Visualization” vor

IBM bietet mit “History Flow Visualization” auf seinen Entwicklerseiten eine Software an, die die Entstehungsgeschichte gemeinschaftlich, z.B. in Wikis entstandener Werke visualisiert. Einzelne Wikis lassen sich über Plug-Ins einbinden.
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Entwickelt wurde die Software von Martin Wattenberg, Fernanda Viegas und Jonathan Feinberg. Sie steht zusammen mit einem Plug-In für MoinMoin auf den AlphaWorks-Seiten für Windows, Linux und MacOS X zum Download bereit und benötigt dabei Java 1.4.