Commercial Open Source Software

“EU-funded Projects and Online Dissemination” inspired some reactions, also from one of the Future Networks projects: the SAIL project.

Johan Myrberger - Head of Multimedia Campus at Ericsson - replied to my suggestions with a blog entry around Online Dissemination, an interesting opportunity to talk more about FP7 dissemination do’s and don’ts.

Continue reading ‘EU-funded Projects and Online Dissemination (part II)’

Michael Meeks, famous hacker and LibreOffice advocate, replied to my earlier post giving his perspectives on many different subjects related to LibreOffice development.

Having read his views with great attention - and keeping in mind his long coding experience with OpenOffice.org, as well as his ability to dig deep into complex subjects like copyright assignment – I want to take a chance to go deeper into some points.

Continue reading ‘The Unsaid Document Foundation (talkbacks)’

Consip - the Italian public stock company owned by the Ministry of the Economy and Finance and responsible for the rationalization of Public Purchases - is hosting an event about electronic purchase of open source services.

The event, that is part of the Open Source Focus Group for Public Administrations series, will be focuses on how the award-winning Italian Public Administration Electronic Marketplace (MEPA) can ease open source procurement processes.

I look forward to moderate the final round-table to stimulate a discussion about ongoing actions and perspectives.

The will be Document Foundation is out from a month, and it is now time to share some thoughts about past, present and future actions taken around subjects like copyright, the legal and governance structure and the code development process.

Continue reading ‘The Unsaid Document Foundation’