“equally critical of proprietary and open source myths, advocating software choice beyond marketing and romanticism”
The Italian Conference on Free Software, now at its fourth edition, will be held in Cagliari on the 11-12 of June.
The call for papers is now open! Associations, free software researchers, developers, open source companies, public administrations, open source advocates and creative commoners are invited to submit their proposals before 18th of April.
A logo contest is still open, if you want to participate send your before 7th of March.
Dana Blankenhorn’s blog post “Open Source still not the first option” says that established markets are the natural fit for open source, while new markets are usually served by proprietary solutions first.
Low-end market disruption - actually occurring when technology advances faster than customers’ needs (e.g. MySQL vs Oracle, Alfresco vs Filenet) - happens in the first stages of maturity in open source adoption, while sustaining innovation probably happens at a later stage.
How open source licensing’s decisions are taken depend on legal issues, business strategies and costs structure.
IP lawyers as well as specialized firms are probably happy to help with the first ones, but let’s talk about the implications in the area of Value Configuration and Key activities looking at some real cases (Day Software, MySQL).
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Italian free software association asks again Italian candidates for Municipal and Regional elections to sign a pact where they agree to promote the use of free software.
The past campaigns hired first 101 candidates, and then 232 for the last elections.
Over the last weeks Alfresco, Sonatype and WaveMaker made their own decisions about licensing.
Alfresco went LGPL, Sonatype - a company with a strong Apache background - for the very first time decided to release some code under GPL, while WaveMaker dumping the AGPL in favor of Apache.
Let’s have a closer look at how - and if - these changes reflect new business directions.
Future of FOSS: A Report from a Strategic Planning Session - On February 10, 2010 the Linux Foundation and the Open Source Initiative held a Strategic Planning Session for lawyers active in support of adoption of free and open source software.
Continue reading ‘Upcoming Open Source Webinars: BlackDuck, Koha, OpenLogic’
OpenOffice.org 3.2.0 released today - GullFOSS blog reports the news enlisting the most important new features.
OpenOffice.org 3.2: 10 Years in the Making - Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier posts his impressions about the new release.
300,000,000 Downloads Later, OpenOffice Ships Version 3.2 - TechCrunch reports the impressive download numbers.
Olliance Group, the open source strategy firm, is organizing the 5th Annual Think Tank that will be held at the Meritage Resort in Napa (California) on April 15-17.
If you never got a chance to join the Open Source Think Tank, the leading invitation-only commercial open source brainstorm and networking conference, get a gist of what you can hear, below an excerpt of my notes from the 4th Open Source Think Tank.
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Adding ClipArt to OpenOffice - If you miss clipart see how to add the collection available at Open Clip Art Library.
Community Projects Webinar: What’s New With Version 3.7 - Jaspersoft has just released the new Jaspersoft 3.7 Community, if you want to know more don’t miss this Webinar on February 16 at 10am Pacific Time.
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