My article discussing why open source subscriptions should not be procured with the same assumptions and procedures as proprietary software is now available in the Essays section.
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Sun.com Will Disappear After June 1 Looks like we have even more link corrosion coming up. Would it really be so hard just to freeze all the content and leave it in place so that everyone’s links keep working? Novell sale to Attachmate delayed until April – due to patent investigation Seems the concerns that [...]
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OpenLogic Scan Shows Open Source License Violations for iPhone and Android (Press Release) While OpenLogic understandably has an interest in promoting their services to companies engaged in the development of commercial software, I’d suggest their implication that open source is in some way a special case here is over-stated. Any product that’s built using input [...]
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The Apache Software Foundation is probably the most respected open source code community. Host to nearly 100 massively important projects like httpd, Subversion and Tomcat, it has thoughtfully and pragmatically built highly effective governance over a long period, tweaking its procedures so they work well without getting in the way of progress. Many thanks to [...]
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In the future, where will most of the patents that patent trolls use come from? Find out in my article today on ComputerWorldUK.
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‘No sysadmin’ is the key to Freedom Box The Freedom Box project will succeed or fail on whether it works “without sysadmin”. If only trained sysadmins can figure out how to be free, the society won’t be free. It’s like the early days of the telephone, when they couldn’t figure how to scale up the [...]
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I got a call on Friday evening from Peter Brown, the Executive Director of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). It’s been my great pleasure to know and work with Peter over the last five years or so. While I was at Sun I liaised with him over the GPLv3 process, to arrange for Richard Stallman’s [...]
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Commitment to Open Robust reply from Red Hat concerning their decision to stop sharing details of the patches they are applying to the Linux kernel with non-subscribers. On the assumption that all the work they do on the open source code itself is committed upstream, I can see no reason at all why this step is [...]
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I’ve heard quite a few conversations that treat open source interchangeably with crowdsourcing. Despite sounding the same they are very different, most importantly in the ownership of the outcome. Open source describes a pragmatic projection of the four software freedoms – to use, study, modify and distribute software for any purpose. As I have explained [...]
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