Having had the chance to chair the Open Source Analysts session at the Open World Forum I want to share here some takeaways. Matthew Aslett, senior analyst at the 451 group, opened the session anticipating some results from the upcoming revision of the “Open Source is NOT a business model” report, due between the end of October and the beginning of November. Continue reading ‘Notes from the Open Source Analysts Summit 2010′
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Before the round 9 of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement will take place in Lucerna (Switzerland) from June 28 - July 1st, a number of organizations are working on petitions to stop ACTA, the plurilateral agreement aimed at imposing copyright and IP rules bypassing democratic processes. Continue reading ‘ACTA: Sign for your Rights’
Among open source related projects funded under the sixth Framework Program, at least four of them - namely FLOSSMetrics, QualiPSo, QUALOSS and SQO-OSS - have been found overlapping around open source software development and quality.
SQO-OSS - Source Quality Observatory for Open Source Software - similarly to FLOSSMetrics was aimed at massive collection of data from thousands of projects, though with different goals.
Looking into EU funded open source initiatives I stepped into few projects, included EDOS, QualOSS and few others around FLOSS metrics and quality. Over the last 7 years a number of open source software assessment methodologies have been proposed, and FLOSSMetrics definitely achieved some interesting results in this respect, and not only.
Continue reading ‘Open Source EU Funded Projects: FLOSSMetrics’
The Italian Constitutional Court recently ruled that the preference for open source software is legal, while taking out two articles from the original regional Piedmont law, actually found to interfere with the Italian copyright law and the Italian constitution.
Italian free software activists welcomed the court’s decision, others put a different interpretation. I am not a lawyer nor a constitutionalist, and I didn’t make my mind yet on this, but I took the chance to have a look at what happens around the world.
Larry Ellison tomorrow will eventually unveil Oracle + Sun strategy, while waiting I took the chance to ping my friend Carlo Piana and ask also his opinion on the European Commission’s clearance of the Oracle/Sun merger.
Continue reading ‘EU Oracle Sun Investigation: Carlo Piana’s Feedback’
Now that the European Commission has approved the Oracle/Sun merger, while waiting Larry Ellison’s webcast about Oracle + Sun strategy update, I asked again Florian Mueller to share his opinion on Commission’s clearance of the deal.
Continue reading ‘EU Oracle Sun Investigation: Florian Mueller’s Comments the Day After the EU Deal’s Clearance’
OSOR news reported about the second ODF Plugfest, the event held in Orvieto at the beginning of this month bringing together standards experts from major multi-national corporations, representatives of European public administrations, andmany individuals active in the European open source community.
Orvieto last week hosted the second ODF Interoperability Workshop, an international event bringing together ODF implementers from all over the world. My talk “open standards and interoperability” opened the first session on day 1, just after Fabio Pistella - President of the Italian National Center for ICT in Public Administrations (CNIPA) - welcomed the international audience.
Continue reading ‘ODF Plugfest: Open Standards and Interoperability’
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Two days ago in Orvieto we announced that in two weeks the open source and open standards world will converge in Orvieto (Italy). The second ODF Plugfest (2-3 Nov) will open the week, bringing together implementors and stakeholders from all over the world to work together on ODF interoperability.
The OpenOffice.org 2009 conference (4-6 Nov) - organized by PLIO association and Orvieto LUG - has a very rich program, including specific sessions aimed at schools and at OOo development.
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