Open Standards law approved in Portugal The law is a great thing, as long as the actual implementation leads to greater software freedom. I humbly suggest the Portuguese government consider my Sentinel Effect essay in this regard… Cabinet Office FOI responses ‘too slow’ One great and smart way to reduce the (legitimate) cost of satisfying [...]
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My article proposing using openness sentinels – the existence of an open source co-developer community working on an implementation as validation of the openness of a standard – is now available in the Essays section.
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Freedom through a clear governance model But the observation that I found most telling was that the governance model has actually freed up blockages in the decision-making processes. This is despite initial concerns expressed by some project members that a governance model could be unnecessary bureaucracy. Speaking At Open Source Business Conference 2011 I’m on [...]
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One of the keys to a successful open source community is appropriate transparency. A community with strong values around transparency will also be likely to respect its participants privacy. Such a community will also be unlikely to have a copyright assignment benefiting a commercial party. Here’s why. An open source community arises from the synchronization [...]
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Groklaw Articles Ending on May 16th Pamela declares victory, resists the temptation to diversify and announces Groklaw will no longer publish original articles. Personally I think this is a great loss for the wider software freedom community; an investigative community venue is definitely needed to counter the mesh of conspiracies I know are the daily [...]
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Hunter Daniel and Protei-003, originally uploaded by cesarharada.com. Here’s a Kickstarter project that deserves your attention. A worldwide group of experts and enthusiasts is designing an autonomous marine robot that can be unleashed in fleets on an oil spill and sweep it all up from the surface of the ocean. Their design and working are [...]
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CFO asks CEO "What happens if we invest in developing our people & then they leave us?" CEO: 'What happens if we don't, and they stay?"— wouter dewanckel (@wouterdewanckel) April 06, 2011
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OSI Board reponds to FCO Questionaire concerning CPTN Transaction The OSI Board was asked by the German cartel authority for further comment on the acquisition of Novell’s patent portfolio by CPTN (Microsoft, Apple, EMC, Oracle). With their permission, the newly-seated OSI Board has published its response. 5th Annual North Bridge Future of Open Source Survey [...]
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The end of OpenID? Very interesting analysis on LWN suggesting that OpenID’s big problem is it leaves users in too much control and thus is no use to web sites who insist on quietly gathering and exploiting your identity information. Keen on Kyrgyzstan Beautifully-written blog by Dennis Keen, who has the unbelievable task of studying [...]
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If we try to define what an “open standard” is, we’ll probably find the definition being gamed by well-funded corporate interests within a short time. But what if there was another way to get an indication that a standard was problematic? I suggest using a sentinel. Read about it on ComputerWorldUK.
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