Linux leads in Top500 supercomputers, again and even moreso
As families go, the Linux operating system family has become the family among the Top500 supercomputers, running on 89.20% of all systems. Proprietary Unix, which used to the the preferred…
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Project management lessons from the FreeDOS Project
A lot of people seem to think that open source is a magic solution to project management and that open source projects will automatically attract a large and healthy community…
CodePlex Foundation ramping up
The CodePlex Foundation (http://codeplex.org/; Twitter @codeplex_f), which was started back in September of this year, has been trying to gain traction and momentum. Unfortunately, its pro tempore Board of Directors…
Open Source Progress in Malaysia
Here are some stunning facts that were published at the end of July in Malaysia: More than 70 percent of Malaysian government offices are running open source software, according to…
If it ain’t broke…
The Open Source movement is consistent with a larger democratic proposition that the more that we can all be involved in affairs that concern them, the better off we’ll all…
Open Source Whitepaper updated for 2010
When I was invited to speak at the STS Forum in Kyoto in 2006, I thought it would be a good idea to write an extremely concise white paper-3 pages…
Reptiles
Several years ago, we had the chance to visit a crocodile farm in Queensland, Australia. There were several highlights, not least the chance for the children to hold a crocodile…
OSI and White House agree on open source benefits, platforms
By now you may have read that www.whitehouse.gov is now running Drupal, the open source content management system. So, too, does the OSI itself. So first I’d like to say…
Exciting Open Source developments in Thailand
The Blender Foundation just posted news of two e-books issued by the government of Thailand, one covering the 3d content creation suite Blender and one covering the GNU Image Manipulation…
A Remarkable Reversal
It was a surprise to see Richard Stallman’s signature on a letter to the European Commission calling on them to block the acquisition of MySQL by Oracle with its proposed…
Building A Scorecard
In my previous posts, I’ve drawn an analogy between open source software and organic food, hinting that in both cases the rush to create a working brand lost some of…
Open Source Education: Professors’ Open Source Camp in Singapore
Professors’ Open Source Summer Experience (POSSE), a training bootcamp targeted for faculty members of technical universities in Asia is being organized from November 9-13, 2009 at Nanyang Polytechnic in Singapore….