The Concrete Benefits of Open Source Software
Following up on an earlier blog posting, Indian Open Standards Policy Finalized, I read an article published in the The Hindu, one of India’s leading newspapers, about the concrete benefits…
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Indian Open Standards Policy Finalized
Venkatesh Hariharan reports: After three years of continuous running battles, India’s Department of Information Technology has finalized the national policy on Open Standards. Over the last three years, we worked…
CSIS Updates Open Source Policy Survey
The Center for Strategic & International Studies updated their latest survey of Government Open Source Policies for 2010, and it is again an outstanding report. From the introductory note: This…
A brief history — 35 years of open source software
a great set of slides by Francois Marier.
The Arc of the Moral Universe is Long…
Nearly six years ago Google launched a new project to promote and support open source software development: Google Code. Back in those days we had Intel Pentium 4 processors that…
Report from CONSEGI 2010 Conference
Last month I participated in the third annual CONSEGI conference in Brasília, Brazil. The first CONSEGI conference was organized in 2008, and though it was organized by and for the…
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…
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…