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  • 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 total-comparing and contrasting open source software and proprietary software. Since then I have been invited to speak about, defend, and expand upon that paper. Now…

  • 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 – a very small one, of course, with its jaws taped shut. Even with one that small, the frisson of terror remained and the children…

  • 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 “welcome to the club!” But the open source wins don’t stop there. Drupal is running on top of the LAMP stack based on Red Hat…

  • 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 Program, aka GIMP. I have a special affection for both of these programs, for several reasons. Nowadays open source seems so inevitable, so commonplace, that…

  • 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 acquisition of Sun. The surprise wasn’t primarily because of that position. Clearly we are all concerned, and clearly there is scope for free software advocates…

  • 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 the essence of the vision. I’ve suggested that having businesses identify “open source” purely on the basis of one “input” – using an OSI-approved license…

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