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  • You need more than free rocks

    We’re realizing is that Open Source is more than just free software. Free software is like free rocks. You need rocks, but rocks aren’t enough to build a house. You get the Open Source effect only when you have a pyramid of people (roles, actually — you can still get the Open Source effect if…

  • Damn disheartening news from OLPC

    The subtitle of this Computer World report quotes Nicholas Negroponte as saying that insitence on Open Source scares people away. Boggle. I believe that without open source, the fundamental purpose of OLPC will fail, because it will create another generation of slaves to proprietary technologies and corporate largesse. In other words, it will perpetuate the…

  • Open Source Initiative (OSI) Announces Results of 2008 Board Election

    The Open Source Initiative (OSI) held its annual election during its regularly scheduled April board meeting (2 April 2008). In 2007, the OSI Board of Directors were: Mr. Michael Tiemann, President Ms. Danese Cooper, Secretary and Treasurer Mr. Russell Nelson Ms. Alolita Sharma Mr. Ken Coar Ms. Nnenna Nwakanma Mr. Rishab Aiyer Ghosh Mr. Raj…

  • Zak Greant’s OSI Weekly Report 2008 Week 13/14

    This report is a summary of Zak Greant‘s Open Source Initiative activities for the weeks of March 30th to April 5th and April 6th to 12th, 2008. These Weeks Light OSI community service work (mostly answering private queries on mailing lists, discussing OSI issues at Go Open, etc.) Dropped the ball on the RfP –…

  • Study: ~50% of Norwegian Software Vendors Integrate FOSS Components

    … based on an extensive screening of software companies, with more than 700 responses. Analysis shows that close to 50% of the software industry integrate OSS components into vertical solutions serving all major business sectors. In addition, more than 30% of the companies using OSS components have over 40% of their income from OSS related…

  • 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…

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