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Thilo Salmon, CEO of sipgate, Inc., wrote in to state that T-Mobile Germany has asked his company to halt and desist offering the company’s flagship VoIP software.

In the letter from its lawyers, T-Mobile claims that sipgate is making the jailbreak process appear more attractive, which could lead customers to breaching their contracts.

According to Salmon, T-Mobile disallows jailbreaking, running VoIP, instant messaging, and VPN applications as part of its subscriber contract. Salmon notes, however, that sipgate only works via WiFi (and not GPRS or EDGE), and therefore does not run on T-Mobile’s network. He states, “for the time being our users are safe.”

sipgate doubts the legal veracity of the argument, and stated it does not plan to comply with the order. Salmon stated “we might need to fight this all the way through the courts.” He also advocates that it’s largely a government policy issue for Germany, and wants to lobby for a net-neutral environment for telecom carriers.

Tempest in a teacup? Apparently, it’s a big deal in Germany. What, if any, “chilling effect” this will have on other VoIP software providers remains to be seen.

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Forrester finds that European enterprises cite support as their biggest reason for not adopting open-source software. This has persisted for years, with support (or, a lack thereof) consistently listed as one of the top reasons that enterprises throughout the world avoid open source.

The ironic thing is that open-source companies …

Source:The Open Road

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This is one of the funniest, ideal posts I’ve read in a long time. Randy Jensen wrote it back in 2007, but it just popped up on Digg today. I had never read it. It’s hilarious.

Jensen compares different operating systems to types of houses, and comes up …

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France might not have shown up for the Euro 2008 soccer finals, but it continues to demonstrate the most adoption of open source, according to a current report from Forrester Research (”Open Source Adoption: Notes From The Field”). In France, 24 percent of the enterprises surveyed by Forrester are currently using open source, with another 15 percent either piloting it or planning to start a pilot within the next year (the other 61 percent are using open source but simply don’t know it :-).

The United Says? It’s at 17 percent adoption with another 11 percent in near-term pilots. Canada is tied with the US while Germany, along with France, leads.

International Adoption of Open Source

(Credit: Forrester Research)

As noted in the comments to an earlier post, these low numbers advocate that Forrester is speaking to the wrong people within enterprises. I’m confident in suggesting that at least 90 percent of these same companies that Forrester surveyed are actively using open source…but the CIO simply doesn’t know it.

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Today has proved to be much busier than expected, but there were a few interesting articles worth exploring:

• First, 63 percent of IT departments surveyed by Forrester “expect[] social technologies to impact the business world.” The other 37 percent apparently don’t realize just how much time their employees are

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