“equally critical of proprietary and open source myths, advocating software choice beyond marketing and romanticism”
The Open Source Initiative board, after visiting the European Commission, has finally approved the European Union Public license on the 4th of March.
The EUPL 1.1 - the revisited version of the EUPL 1.0 including recommended modifications resulting from the OSI discussion - is supported by the EUPL community. Stakeholders can share opinions and pose questions through the EUPL forums and blog.
Continue reading ‘Open Source Licenses: EUPL got OSI Approval, but Still Doesn’t Show Up’
In addition to hold workshops, and presenting or keynoting at conferences, I give private speeches at companies, talking about open source business models, Italian open source offering and how to build an effective commercial open source strategy.
Earlier this week I was invited speaker at one of the biggest Italian system integrators, and I want here to take a chance to recap some highlights and few answering questions from the audience.
The Italian association Concreta-mente for the second year will held the Open Source in Public Administrations conference, on the 1st of April 2009 in Rome, at the LUISS Guido Carli university.
Four different case studies of Italian public administrations using open source software and open standards will be presented. Carlo Mochi Sismondi, Forum PA General Manager, will moderate a round-table discussion with representatives from public and private sectors.
The NEXA Center for Internet and Society of the Politecnico di Torino - a multidisciplinary research center on the impact of the Internet on society, with a focus on technical, economical and juridical issues - on yesterday published a position paper on file sharing and extended collective licenses.
NEXA’s attempt to over turn the piracy debate with a solution that try to accommodate authors’ and users’ needs, following the example of Nordic European Countries.
Read the full paper (PDF, Italian), a result of NEXA’ Wednsdays.
The Italian OpenOffice.org Association (PLIO), two years after its foundation yesterday - during the annual assembly - appointed the new board.
Italo Vignoli is now PLIO’s president, Paolo Mantovani is PLIO’s vice-president. I want to publicly thank Davide Dozza for his great job during these two long years, without his efforts and determinations we would not have been to start it all.
Openoffice.org: 7 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do - An essay of OpenOffice.org tricks, with pointers to other good post on the subject.
Does OpenOffice have 11 million active U.S. users? - Matt Asay on OpenOffice.org US pervasiveness, look at the numbers!
Black Duck Software, the intellectual property management firm headquartered near Boston with offices in San Francisco, Frankfurt, Paris, Tokyo and Hong Kong - announced the release of the Black Duck Suite, a unified framework bringing together three Black Duck products (Black Duck Code Center, Export and Protex).
Black Duck ’s survey conducted among software developers gathered at the SD West Conference held this week in Santa Clara (California), revealed little awareness about compliance, security and management problems. Actually those issues are addressed by Black Duck products and services, and I asked Tim Yeaton, one of the new CEO met at the open source think tank last week, to tell how he sees the market changing and how Black Duck strategy fits in the big picture.
Continue reading ‘Open Source Governance: Black Duck keeps Quacking, an interview with Tim Yeaton’
The Venice International University’s research on Open Source in Italy, conducted by Antonio Picerni and Alessandro De Rossi, was presented last Tuesday at the VEGA technology park, in Venice.
Among the many findings presented - resulting from on-line surveys and interviews to 181 Italian firms - the research states that Italian IT companies offering solutions based on open source software reach bigger customers.
Continue reading ‘Italian Open Source Offering: 2008 VIU Research’s Findings’
The webinar aims at comparing the leading open source application development frameworks such as MyFaces, SEAM, Spring, Struts, and Tapestry. The webinar will be held next Thursday, March 12 2009, between 6:00 and 7:00pm GMT.
Attendees will learn key differences amongst leading frameworks and also about other frameworks on the rise, how to choose the most appropriate development enivronment and how to create web applications with them.
Register on line on OpenLogic website.
Nokia, in order to take to the next level the Maemo platform - the open source software that powers mobile devices such as the N810 Internet Tablet - is now looking for people.
Nokia aims at extending the platform’s capabilities, also by adding a Qt-based application development environment to complement the existing GTK+. If you wish to join the Maemo SW team in Finland, India or United States take a moment to read open positions.
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