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Public Advocacy for Open Source Software–Preferences and Requirements
Copied the inbound channel / mailing list to the OSI board: On 9/28/07, Luis Ibanez wrote: OSI Board: As developers of Open Source software, at Kitware we are very excited to see that is more and more common for federal funding agencies to require or encourage the creation and use of open source software when…
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Freedom more important than price or cost…
According to an article published in Enterprise Open Source Magazine, CIOs interviewed by Forrester Research rank freedom more important than price or cost when considering open source software.
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SCO and the Three Stooges
As SCO’s attack against Linux collapses, with Judge Dale Kimball’s ruling on the Novell copyrights making it plainer than ever that the lawsuit was fraudulent from the word go, we’re now seeing recantations from two of SCO’s three major journalistic stooges — Dan Lyons and Rob Enderle. The third, Maureen O’Gara, has yet to be…
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Are You Right With Reality?
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” – Albert Einstein Last week I flew to Las Vegas to talk on stage with The Gartner Group‘s lead open source analyst Mark Driver at their 2007 Open Source Summit. The subject of the discussion was a paper…
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QNX is NOT “Opening” their “source”
QNX is claiming that effective today, they will “open” the “source” code to its QNX embedded product.
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RMS going off on a tangent again
RMS is leading people off on his own path again. He’s saying that if people want to keep their freedom they better not follow Torvalds. While it’s great that RMS doesn’t compromise his principles, the principle that he isn’t compromising isn’t necessary. RMS constantly tells us that it is the word “Free” which is important.…
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@osi bit of a surprise to see myself in the photo on the maintainer page 😂