Pinboard: bookmarks for sogrady tagged 'free'

Coding Horror: We Don't Use Software That Costs Money Here

"The competitive pressure of free products on commercial tools intensifies every year. It's relentless. And to be honest, I feel many of the commercial alternatives aren't evolving fast enough to stay ahead of their free competition."

opensource economics business free software
april 2008 by sogrady

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ESPN.com - Long-term cost of MLB's prices

"MLB can make a few pennies every year, selling all the old stuff. I suspect it can more dollars, down the road, by giving away the old stuff to anybody who cares enough to want it."

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march 2008 by sogrady

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How to Brew - By John Palmer - Contents

by giving this book away online, Palmer's pretty much ensured that when - not if - i buy texts, he's going to be the first choice

johnpalmer beer homebrew brewing howto reference free
january 2008 by sogrady

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Sam Ruby: Eventual Consistency

"Amazon SimpleDB [via Simon Willison]. Erlang. Schemaless. Cool." - agreed.

samruby amazon simpledb schemaless database free barriers-to-entry
december 2007 by sogrady

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Piecing together free java [LWN.net]

#redmonk regular mjw on free Java

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december 2007 by sogrady

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Delaminate the Bastards!

amen

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july 2007 by sogrady

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O'Reilly Radar > Six Basic Truths of Free APIs

the excellent counterpoint to my view of a need for a Mashup Dev's Bill of Rights

free apis billofrights mashups businessmodels issues legal web2.0
may 2007 by sogrady

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GigaOM » Free: a Tactic, not a Business Model

aka a loss leader: great piece by Anne

lossleader economics opensource free freemium
march 2007 by sogrady

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Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Customer value and the network effect

"What's the value of a customer who doesn't pay you anything? If you're running a hot dog stand, the answer is probably 'zero.' " - as i've said before, customers that don't pay you anything have value; this study will be good ammunition in that regard

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march 2007 by sogrady

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ProposedTrademarkPolicy - Debian Wiki

Debian evolving their Trademark Policy to reconcile it with their their Free Software Guidelines

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november 2006 by sogrady

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Google Docs & Spreadsheets

repent, the hour of Google Office is nigh

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october 2006 by sogrady

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Firefox Set Free in IceWeasel

IceWeasel? really seems like this should be unnecessary

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october 2006 by sogrady

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Brownie Points: Trot to the finish line?

thoughts on one of my favorite Sox players of all time

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september 2006 by sogrady

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Free WiFi spawns cafe backlash

a natural problem given the rivalrous nature of the resources involved; for my part, i try to be a good patron of venues that offer free wireless, buying more water/etc than i might actually need

wireless wifi business case coffee culture free internet social work telecommute
july 2006 by sogrady

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Pearl Jam's “Life Wasted” video released under a CC license | Creative Commons

yet another reason i love Pearl Jam; bless these guys

creativecommons free license music pearljam video remix mashups
may 2006 by sogrady

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John Sequeira's Weblog

interesting free DB feature matrix from Sequeira

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may 2006 by sogrady

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Blogging Roller: Free as in beer IDEs from MSFT

Roller's Johnson on VS Express

visualstudio express free eclipse NetBeans C#
april 2006 by sogrady

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John Sequeira's Weblog

Mr. Sequeira on the opportunity around clustering free databases

databases relational sequeira clustering free db2 oracle mysql
april 2006 by sogrady

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» More code foreshadowing perhaps? | Googling Google | ZDNet.com

VOIP would make Gmail very, very interesting

gmail voip google free saas
february 2006 by sogrady

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FON: WiFi everywhere!

seems pretty cool - it's a friend of Miguel's running this

deicaza broadband business community free hotspot p2p sharing commons wifi fon
february 2006 by sogrady

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'Free' is the new 'cheap' for software tools

News.com, January 31st, 2006

redmonkpress mysql opensource free f/oss db2 oracle databases
february 2006 by sogrady

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russian climbing - Google Video

this is unreal

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december 2005 by sogrady

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Sun makes server and tools available for free | Virtuas Solutions

senor Raible approves of the recent Sun announcement

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december 2005 by sogrady

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JohnnyL's Blog

JohhnyL on the recent Sun software announcements; v interesting move, IMO - more on that later

loiacono sun opensource jes free barriers-to-entry
december 2005 by sogrady

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Oracle to offer free database | CNET News.com

Oracle's following the lead of IBM and MSFT here, who are in turn responding to open source; should be interesting to watch

oracle free barriers-to-entry ibm microsoft mysql
october 2005 by sogrady

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Solaris 10 University Challenge | FootNotes

good stuff from the Sun folks; giving gear away is rarely a bad thing

sun community education free hardware contest
october 2005 by sogrady

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Resentment Flares Over Fees for Internet Access at Hotels - New York Times

amen. like i just said over at Bob's blog, i hate airports even worse than hotels b/c they try and charge you for a full day when they know damn well you won't use it

wifi airports hotels free customer-service
october 2005 by sogrady

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Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS, FOSS, or FLOSS)? Look at the Numbers!

good roll up of some F/OSS numbers by David (via Phipps)