If you have been using the font Comic Sans to support dyslexics, there’s a new font in town – see ComputerWorldUK.
Filed under: ComputerWorldUK | Comments Off on Kicking Comic Sans
The Forces Of Open
Posted on October 16, 2012 by Simon Phipps
What’s driving open source? That was the question InfoWorld asked me to explore for a feature-length article. I spent a good deal of time over the summer thinking about it, and went on to present some ideas as the opening keynote at the eighth International Conference on Open Source Systems in September.
My conclusion is that the key forces driving open source – both for good and bad – are:
- The rise of open source foundations
- The number of licensing choices available, and how they are understood
- The threat of software patents and responses to it
- Cloud computing and the usage modalities it induces
- Big data and the change in the value point of software it implies
I’m continuing to work on these ideas and welcome input.
Filed under: ComputerWorldUK, Open Source | Comments Off on The Forces Of Open
Wild Webmink 