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  Roberto Galoppini 3:01 pm on April 9, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

  Open Source Government Policies 

  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.

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    M. Fioretti 6:23 am on April 13, 2010 Permalink

    Hi Roberto,

    here is some other information I collected about the decision of the Italian Constitutional court. More exactly, I collected some explanation of why a part of the decision may be a symptom that there may be general problems in OTHER Italian regional laws regarding Open Source software and Open Standards in Public Administrations:

    http://stop.zona-m.net/node/135

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    Roberto Galoppini 9:26 am on April 13, 2010 Permalink

    Ciao Marco.

    I hope at some point someone will invest time towards analyzing free software laws’ effectiveness, eventually helping us to draw some conclusions.

    All in all supporting public administrations to better understand licensing and for writing tenders to me seems a pragmatic way to promote open source software for real.

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  Roberto Galoppini 12:18 pm on April 8, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

  Open Source Cloud: Usharesoft 

  Open source cloud is getting hype, and looking at the different slices of the “burger cloud” among SaaS cloud providers I happened to step into UShareSoft, a French company based in Grenoble providing an appliance factory to design, build and deploy software appliances in virtual and cloud environments.

  James Weir, UShareSoft CTO, answered few questions about their offer and open source strategy.

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  Roberto Galoppini 1:45 pm on April 6, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: DanaBlankenhorn ( 2 ), FlorianMueller ( 3 ), Hercules, TurboHercules   

  IBM: Open Source’s Friend or Foe? 

  Florian Mueller – the EU campaigner involved in the software patents war – a couple of months ago talking about the Sun-MySQL merger called IBM a “false friend of open source”, but when I asked for more details he told me to wait.

  Today he pointed me to his new foss patents blog entry reporting IBM has concerns about unauthorized use of proprietary IBM information by TurboHercules contributors.

  Roger Bowler – CEO of TurboHercules, the company behind the mainframe emulator distributed under the Q Public license – asked IBM to consider adding such intellectual property to the IBM “non-assertion” pledge to the open source community.

  Is there any chance that IBM would consider that?

  Read more at The Register and at Dana Blankenhorn’s blog.

  
  

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    Roberto Galoppini 7:24 pm on April 11, 2010 Permalink

    Actually I didn’t take any position yet, though I believe that posing questions is legitimate and it doesn’t imply a judgment, as eloquently explained Simon Phipps.

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  Roberto Galoppini 11:04 am on March 27, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: call for proposals, Open World Forum ( 8 ), OWF ( 8 )   

  Open World Forum 2010: 19 Days Left For Apply 

  The deadline for the call of proposals of the third Open World Forum – to be held in Paris, 30 September – 1 October 2010, plus an optional Geek Day on 2 October – has been extended from March 30 to April 15.

  

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  Roberto Galoppini 4:23 pm on March 24, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: GNOME Marketing, LucasRocha, StormyPeters ( 4 )   

  Open Source Fundraising Campaigns: The GNOME Ruler 

  GNOME is raising funds for a system administrator, and just yesterday a ruler has been added to the top of various GNOME websites to show people progress. Stormy Peters reported that on the first day almost $1,000 in donations came from individual donors, and $5,000 from a company.

  The goal tracking ruler added by Lucas Rocha and others is a nice and effective tool. Kudos to the GNOME Marketing team.

  Maybe others like the Eclipse foundation will follow the GNOME example, hope at PLIO will consider that at some point.

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  Roberto Galoppini 4:02 pm on March 23, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: business international, Cloud Computing ( 6 )   

  Cloud Computing and Virtualization Strategies 2010 

  Business International, the Italian leading conference company, is organizing the 1st Cloud Computing and Virtualization Strategies that will take place in Milan on the 26th of March at the Enterprise Hotel.

  The conference will look at how, when, and where computing opportunities can be taken advantage of, providing IT decision makers and CIOs  with useful information and guidance. Round-tables will cover how the cloud can benefit security, virtualization and cloud computing, cloud computing and mobile platforms.

  See you there!

   
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  Roberto Galoppini 4:24 pm on March 19, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: openoffice ( 44 )   

  OpenOffice.org Italian Association Thanks Tax Payers! 

  The Italian revenue agency has just released the list of ONLUS and volunteer organizations that are eligible for tax payers’ donations (5 per mille), and PLIO, the Italian OpenOffice.org association born in 2007 ,is among them!

  PLIO has received 171 preferences, and it is in the first third of the list order by amount desc. The total amount of donations is 5.519,72 euros.

  Thank you all for your donations!

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  Roberto Galoppini 10:52 pm on March 18, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

  Open Source Webinars: BlackDuck, Kuali, Linux Foundation 

  The Impact of Virtualization Technology on Open Source License Obligations – This Black Duck Webinar will provide an overview of pertinent virtualization technologies, how they work, the issues they raise and perspective on how to address them.
  Mon, Mar 29, 2010 2 pm EDT

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  Roberto Galoppini 8:16 pm on March 15, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Alfresco ( 7 ), Cloud Computing ( 6 ), Plone, Red Hat ( 8 ), salesforce ( 2 ), SAP   

  Open Source Webinars: Alfresco, ifPeople, Red Hat 

  SAP – Alfresco Integration for the Public Sector – Presentation and demo integrating Alfresco with SAP based on the CTAC Connector in the public sector.
  March 31 2010 11am EST.
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  Roberto Galoppini 10:08 am on March 13, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: BlackBerry fails, openoffice ( 44 )   

  BlackBerry Unsupported Formats, OpenOffice.org Equation Editor, Converting Rows to Columns: OpenOffice.org links, 13-03-2010 

  BlackBerry Internet Service 3.0 to Skip Two-Way GMail Sync? – Differently from what expected the BlackBerry Internet Service 3.0 upgrade doesn’t include the ability to work with OpenOffice presentations, spreadsheets, and documents.

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