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  • Gartner groks CATB; Enderle next?

    In 1997, Eric Raymond first presented The Cathedral and the Bazaar at Linux Kongress. I was not there, but I read the paper, and it struck me as no less revolutionary in thought or effect than must have been Thomas Paine’s publication of Common Sense or Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. Eric turned that paper…

  • Support Libre Graphics 2008!

    In my day job at Red Hat I see daily examples of open source best practices, be it at the architecture, infrastructure, or application level. I see how individuals focused on a specific problem are able to best solve that problem using the vast resources of open source (230 million source lines of code in…

  • Zak Greant’s OSI Weekly Report 2008 Week 12

    This report is a summary of Zak Greant‘s Open Source Initiative activities for the week of March 23rd to 29th, 2008. This Week Alolita Sharma, Andrew C. Oliver and I sent the draft infrastructure RFP to the board for review. Worked with the rest of the OSI team on developing the affiliate/membership/somethingship program. Next Week…

  • Zak Greant’s OSI Weekly Report 2008 Week 11

    This report is a summary of Zak Greant‘s Open Source Initiative activities for the week of March 16th to 22nd, 2008. This Week Alolita, Andrew and I worked on the draft infrastructure requirements for the various online services that the OSI needs and provides, and developed a corresponding RFP. A few instances of lightweight community…

  • Zak Greant’s OSI Weekly Report 2008 Week 10

    This report is a summary of Zak Greant’s Open Source Initiative activities for the week of March 9th to 15th, 2008. This Week This was my first week of real activity in 2008 (except for my attendance of the March 2008 OSI face-to-face meeting.)

  • Congrats to Michael Tiemann

    I wanted to give a quick shout out to our President, who was just listed as one of eWeek’s Top Ten Open-Source Business Influencers. Wish they could’ve gotten a better picture, though…

  • Microsoft’s new weapon against open source: stupidity

    An Information Week article published last week appears to position Microsoft as trying to do something right when it comes to open source. And it positions the open source community as being not quite ready to make nice after past insults, threats, and abuse. Speaking for myself, I am always ready to see what somebody…

  • Patent owners and Open Source

    Are you a patent holder, wondering how to write software which implements your patent? Here’s my advice: Patents expire. Towards the end of the patent’s lifetime, you want to be trying to transfer the patent’s franchise over to the relationship between the patent-holder and the licensee. That can be done with closed-source software, but you…

  • OSI supports ODF and Document Freedom Day

    March 26 is Document Freedom Day (DFD). On March 26th, events and activities across the world will be held to promote adoption of free document formats such as the Open Document Format (ODF). For any individual or organization, anywhere in the world, the right to share data without “lock-in” from vendors is as fundamental as…

  • Matt Asay is Right

    This is the text of a comment I made on a blog posting by Matt Asay: Matt, Thanks for saying what I would have said. I’ll go a few steps futher: The OSI nominates people to the board despite their corporate affiliations, not because of them. The idea that the OSI would elect a "Microsoft"…

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