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Even Harry Potter Pic Loses Money Because Of Warner Bros’ Phony Baloney Net Profit Accounting Saving this for next time I hear a movie studio explaining how they are making a loss because of “piracy”. How to Make Oatmeal . . . Wrong Sad tale of how McDonalds have even managed to make oatmeal porridge [...]
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Sony’s War on Makers, Hackers, and Innovators I’m not big on boycotts, as I believe freedom is about what we are free to do rather than about what we must not do, but I don’t buy stuff from Sony any more and am unlikely to do so until I see a track record of positive [...]
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The Document Foundation reaches fund raising target It took just a week for over 2000 donors to donate the €50,000 that The Document Foundation needed to act as their capital reserve in order to be registered in Germany as a “Stifftung” (capital-based non-profit trust). Once again an example of the amazing community support that’s present [...]
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UK Government defines open standards as royalty free Excellent move here, although of course the devil is in the details. The big problem with getting open source into government procurement anywhere in the world is that the system by which software is procured is weighted heavily in favour of proprietary software. The changes that are [...]
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I am speaking at the ODF Plugfest here in the UK this morning, on the subject of the challenges facing the procurement of open source software by traditional enterprises (including the public sector). Based on a selection of experiences from ForgeRock’s first year, my talk considers procurement challenges that legacy procurement rules raise for introducing [...]
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The Open-By-Rule Benchmark I talked about recently has now had several workouts, and there are a number more under review ready for future posting. So far, it seems to be working out well, with projects receiving scores that (to my eyes at least) are an accurate reflection of the openness. It’s been clear that every [...]
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ForgeRock announces Australian partner I’m very pleased to say that ForgeRock has a new, full-service partner in Australia. A big welcome to FPG to the family. OpenDJ – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ForgeRock woke up this morning to find that someone (we have no idea who) has created a great Wikipedia article for OpenDJ – [...]
It seems everything has a special day. Among all the various red letter days, you may not have run into Document Freedom Day, which this year is being celebrated on March 30th. Don’t for a second underestimate the importance of document freedom. It sounds dull – not just mundane, but the forgotten esoterica of the [...]
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Dave Neary has kindly agreed to supply data for an Open-By-Rule evaluation of the GNOME Project, which develops and maintains one of the two open source graphic desktop environments most widely used on UNIX and Linux systems as well as a diverse and growing range of other software including notably mobile software. The scores are [...]
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