Clik here to view.
Mårten Mickos: "F" as in freedom, and in fun, and in the future
If you haven't heard a keynote about the wonders of the cloud, you haven't been to an open source conference lately. But Mårten Mickos' LinuxCon cloud keynote was more than that--it was really a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The entrepreneur's dilemma: Justifying contributor agreements in open source
At the start of the summer, you may recall Project Harmony causing a certain amount of controversy on the subject of contributor agreements in open source communities. My position on them was and is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Internet censorship in Slovak republic
Last week, the Slovak Ministry of Finance proposed a revision of communication law by extending it to create a list of websites to be banned by all Slovak Internet service providers (ISPs). Even more...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why one-size-fits-all could save public education
One-size-fits-all is vanilla ice cream. It’s plain white athletic socks. It’s “Mary Had a Little Lamb” with a recorder. One-size-fits-all is an assembly line and a Model-T Ford and a straight line of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How is your organization faring in the war of control vs. freedom?
In October 1969, when experts at the US Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) connected the first two nodes of what has now become the Internet, they probably weren’t...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How university open debates and discussions introduced me to open source
My experience with the open source way of doing things dates back to my university days in India. During those days, I had a very narrow view with regards to what exactly open source is and what its...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Open Source Procurement Toolkit: Still crippled by "free"
The recent release of the Open Source Procurement Toolkit by the Cabinet Office has been interesting and encouraging, even if it did stir in me a certain scepticism that things will be different this...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Perspective from an open source newbie
In my first week at Red Hat, having come from a long history of using proprietary software in the corporate workplace, it only took a few hours to wash away more than fifteen years of plugging overly...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Misplaced priorities hampering UK government uptake of open source
According to a computing.co.uk article entitled Open Source: The government's commitment so far, most of the IT technology used in the UK government is still proprietary and comes from single...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The quality of open source code increases adoption
What makes open source software attractive to you?Freedom from lock-in50.3% (88 votes)Lower cost8.6% (15 votes)Quality13.7% (24 votes)Flexibility27.4% (48 votes)Open Source Business Conference (OSBC)...
View Article
