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Microsoft Releases Silverlight 2
Contentinople: —
... toolkit. "Silverlight was built on .Net, which has over 4 million developers that know how to use it worldwide," says Brian Goldfarb, director of developer platforms for Microsoft. "This opens up access to a whole new class of people that can use it without learning new skills and technologies." The newest version of Silverlight includes a few new features, including new skins and a handful of new controls. The newest version is also more open: Goldfarb says Silverlight 2 has an OSI -approved, open-source license that will allow developers to download and play around with ...
"Business intelligence" software goes GPL
Linux-Watch.com —
... , adding a BI metadata layer that lets IT develop intelligence road maps that business users can then use to build reports. It also added a thin-client AJAX-based reporting interface for streamlining the creation of ad hoc queries and reports without requiring input from IT. Pentaho is providing a FLOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software) exception to its GPL licenses, permitting Pentaho and other organizations that distribute the software under other specified Open Source Initiative (OSI) certified licenses to be exempt from some of the GPLv2 requirements. According to ...
Should federal government go open source?
ZDNet Government —
January 24th, 2009 Should federal government go open source? Posted by Richard Koman @ January 24, 2009 @ 8:40 AM Categories: Open source , Obama Tags: Software , Open Source , Richard Koman Could the federal government be going open source? The BBC reports that President Obama has asked former Sun CEO Scott McNealy to report on the relative benefits of open source software. Imagine that: a president who has heard of open source software. And McNealy will report just how large those benefits are. It’s intuitively obvious open source is more cost effective and ...
Losing the Chains of Proprietary Lock-Ins [OStatic]
GigaOM Network —
... from the low cost of the software, and if it should no longer meet the company's criteria, it's time to choose another application.
This perception is selling open source software short. Matt Asay at CNet has a good write up about this idea, and one I think can be taken even one step further.
Asay's piece centers around an article the Times UK published recently. A quote by Michael Tiemann of the Open Source Initiative and Red Hat declared that the era of "proprietary software lock-in" ...
Losing the Chains of Proprietary Lock-Ins
OStatic blogs —
... The money saved comes from the low cost of the software, and if it should no longer meet the company's criteria, it's time to choose another application.
This perception is selling open source software short. Matt Asay at CNet has a good write up about this idea, and one I think can be taken even one step further.
Asay's piece centers around an article the Times UK published recently. A quote by Michael Tiemann of the Open Source Initiative and Red Hat declared that the era of "proprietary software lock-in" ...
Forge.mil Update and DISA Hacks Public Domain
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. —
... At this point most of the code seems to be licensed as "DoD Community Source" and a few projects are under Apache and BSD style licenses. DoD Community Source basically means that the code is "unlimited rights" or "government purpose license rights" under the Defense Federal Acquisition Rules (DFARS). While not "open source" in the OSI sense of the term, hosting code licensed this way on forge.mil should make collaboration across DoD the default rather than the exception. Basically these aren't copyright-based licenses but are designed to operate as though they are in ...
Has the GPL out-lived its usefulness?
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's blog —
There have always been two schools of intellectual property thought in free software/open-source circles, and boy have they had their flame wars over the years. Things have been calm lately, but recently, Eric S. Raymond, co-founder of the OSI ( Open Source Initiative ), has thrown a match on the gasoline again in an essay entitled, ...
Fitting the optimal level of openness to your business strategy
The Open Road —
As open source has gone mainstream, it has become clear that "open source" is a much bigger tent than Richard Stallman, founder of the free-software movement, or the Open Source Initiative, maintainers of the Open Source Definition, envisioned.
Open source is being applied to a wide array of industries - from software to automotive - and it has started to assume different forms to fit the very different needs of insurgents and incumbents, customers and vendors, non-profits and for-profits, at different phases of development.
One way ...
The Way I Work, annotated
Matt Mullenweg —
I was fortunate enough to be featured in the July issue of Inc. magazine’s “The Way I Work” column. (Page 114, the one with Paul Graham on the cover.) The article is great and the photography very flattering, but it’s a little misleading. All TWIW articles are written in the first person, but not directly authored by the subjects, and we’re not allowed to see them before they’re published. These bizarre rules have some unexpected outcomes, and I’ve taken the liberty of rewriting the article in my own words and with lots of extra links. ...
Making Government Transparent Using R
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. —
... With Open Source now considered an accepted part of the software industry, some people are starting to wonder if we can't bring the same degree of openness and innovation into government. Danese Cooper, who is actively involved in the open source community through her work with the Open Source Initiative and ...
Open-source extremism...and how the OSI can help
The Open Road —
... Here's a specific policy request: while the Open Source Initiative has expanded its board, of which I was once a terribly unproductive part, the OSI has not expanded its ideological base. The OSI can help itself and the open-source community by enlarging the experience base of its board members.
This might include, for example, more business-minded open-source people. But it would also be helpful to include those in the open-source community that are deeply affected by open source, but may have very different views on what open source should mean, including ...
Open Source and Social Media: Community, Collaboration, Freedom
ReadWriteWeb —
... OSCON is celebrating its 10th year anniversary this coming week in a four-day conference in San Jose, California. In addition to the usual technical tracks, OSCON has added people and business tracks and many free events. You can register for a free pass to the expo hall (yes, free as in beer) and attend the "Birds of a Feather" un-conference, Ignite party, Hackathon, and much more (all free). Check out the list of events.
Great resources online include Open Source Initiative Open Government, Open Data Initiatives, SourceForge ...
FSF takes on Windows 7
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's blog —
... has never liked proprietary software, but for most of its history, it's focused on singing the praises of free software, and, with some distaste, its near-twin, open-source software . Not anymore. These days, the FSF is spending its time attacking proprietary software, like it did today, August 26th, when it went after Windows 7 in its new ...
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