Document Freedom Day 2011 Don’t for a second underestimate the importance of document formats – the way your files are stored by the program you use – in locking you in to a vendor ecosystem. It sounds dull – not just mundane, the esoterica of the mundane – but it’s a crucial driver in the [...]
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Double Bug: Oracle Kept OpenJDK In The Dark Great explanation from Mark Wielaard of how the effectiveness of the OpenJDK community in dealing with the Double security problem was degraded by poor communication. Drawing up a roadmap More of Dave Neary’s wisdom, this time on the key open-by-rule metric of community roadmaps. Not Dead Yet: [...]
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Charles-H Schulz from The Document Foundation submitted the data for a benchmark evaluation of LibreOffice. I have read his evaluations and added scores, giving a current evaluation of +5 for LibreOffice (on a scale of -10 to +10). This would firmly identify LibreOffice as open-by-rule. There is still some room for improvement, but that’s to [...]
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My article about how procurement policies need to address copyright ownership is now available from the Essays section.
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I’ve two stories about the discovery and resolution of bugs in important software packages – Solaris and Java – that suggest a properly-functioning open source community gets security problems fixed faster than a closed process. Read about it on ComputerWorldUK.
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White House will propose new digital copyright laws The Obama administration wants Big Media to have even more repressive control on America’s citizens. Looks like Obama doesn’t need the people that got him elected any more. Anti-transparency Seems companies abusing the DMCA to limit free speech are easily identifiable by their fear of transparency. Look [...]
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mflow music Give this UK-based online music site a try (assuming you can – the usual music industry geographic restriction nonsense applies). It lets you listen to whatever you want just like Spotify does, but without the ads, subscriptions and restrictions. The music is cheap too and there are regular special offers – try entering [...]
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Given the interest in my earlier article about a scorecard for open source and my own rough-and-ready benchmark proposal, I’d be interested in seeing how well the benchmark works at rating a variety of open source projects. If you’re familiar enough with a project to be willing to have your name associated with rating it, [...]
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My article establishing an open-by-rule benchmark for checking the governance of open source communities is now available in the Essays section.
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The Free Java DevRoom at FOSDEM was packed with people all day yesterday. At the beginning, Mark Reinhold (from Sun and now Oracle, the chief Java engineer) hoped to speak briefly about the new OpenJDK governance draft but faced plenty of searching questions about it – you’ll not get to see though, as Mark and [...]
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