“equally critical of proprietary and open source myths, advocating software choice beyond marketing and romanticism”
Whil reviewing books for the Jolt Awards, I have been reading the “Intellectual Property and Open Source” book, published by O’Reilly and authored by Van Lindberg. A book meant to be a developer’s documentation for the legal system, potentially able to serve different audiences, IT managers included.
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InitMarketing made its calendar of world-wide open source conferences available.
It currently includes 122 events in 17 countries taking place in 2009, as reported by Sandro Groganz.
If your event is not reported feel free to comment on his blog or commenting at the bottom of the events page.
On my way back from the Open Source Think Tank I met my friend Fabrizio Capobianco at his office in Reedwood city, and he took the chance to show me his new MobileWe portal, the Funambol’s version of Apple’s MobileMe.
Funambol business model has always intrigued me, and I asked Fabrizio more about how Funambol manages the difference between the community edition and the carrier edition.
Continue reading ‘Open Source Mobile: Funambol’s Differences between Community and Carrier Editions’
OpenOffice.org Annual Conference 2009 will be held in Orvieto (Italy). This year OOoCon rules are changed, the community awarded not just OOoCon 2009, but also OOoCon 2010, that will be held in Budapest (Hungary).
The OpenOffice.org Conference Team, following a community consultation process, awarded Orvieto, a clear favourite with 48% of the votes. Budapest was second with 29%.
People intersting in attending OOoCon 2009 are invited to subscribe to the OOoCon 2009 mailing list. To subscribe to the list, please send a blank email to ooocon2009_discuss-subscribe@marketing.openoffice.org.
GroundWork 5.3 press release says that customers benefit from using the BitRock Network Service to be notified of available patches, and updates, and technical bulletins.
During the open night reception at the Open Source Think Tank Erica Brescia, BitRock CEO, told me more about her product and strategy.
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