A simple declaration about “Open Core”
Recently, there has been debate in the press about “Open Core”. I don’t care to debate the minor points but make a simple declaration: “Open Core” has NOTHING to do…
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Resources for Open Source Compliance
Open source is everywhere today and there is growing awareness that companies have to meet certain obligations when distributing open source software. Here are some useful resources to learn more…
Creating a FLOSS Roadmap, brick by BRIC
Last year I attended Open World Forum in Paris. It was a lively conference with broad representation of industry leaders, community organizers, and government officials and administrators. The warm reception…
Why Open Core has a problem and is not a problem.
Pamela Jones, of Groklaw, thinks that OSI has a problem in Open Core. I think she has it backwards. The Open Core (most notably SugarCRM) folks have a problem. They’d…
Malaysian Government has reached 97% OSS Adoption — WOW!
When I started working on GNU C++ in 1987, I could almost feel the course of history changing with every line of code I wrote. When I started Cygnus Support…
Open Data Definition at OSCON
I’m running a BOF at OSCON on Wednesday night July 21st at 7PM, with the declared purpose of adopting an Open Source Definition for Open Data. Safe enough to say…
Ushahidi tracks the Gulf Oil Spill: Open Source Crowdsourcing at Work
On April 20th, 2010, a methane gas explosion ripped apart the operational oil rig “Deepwater Horizon” in the Gulf of Mexico. This accident has become a catastrophe – the largest…
Brazil and India: The Next Generation of Open Source
Those of us who follow the growth of open source in the BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China) know that both Brazil and India are leveraging open source at a…
Your Chance To Change OSI
When I said recently that we still need the Open Source Initiative (OSI), it started a flood of comment. There’s no doubt that we need OSI – but we need…
OSI Committee Chairs Election for 2010-2011
Earlier this month, the OSI board held elections for the organization’s committees. Board members interested in working on OSI initiatives such as membership, education, policy and economic development, outreach submitted…
Oh and one more thing…open source does support piracy…
And by my earlier criticism of the IIPA position that open source == piracy…there might be something to that. Feel free to copy and distribute any of the open source…
To Microsoft, Open Source means “Windows Encumbered”
One of the most interesting things to happen in the past couple of years, is Microsoft’s embrace of Open Source. This means different things to various people I’ve spoken with…