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Free Software Foundation – GPL Compliance Lawsuits
“some people have speculated that developers’ attitudes about GPL enforcement have changed. In reality, I don’t think that’s the case. To put it simply, filing lawsuits isn’t fun.”
(tags: gpl-violations embedded business gnu/linux)

The Scalable OSS Business Model?
Interesting discussion on FLOSS business models
(tags: free+software+business saas scalability floss)

Saturation point for enterprise open [...]

I’ve started the new tag system offered by Wordpress 2.3.1 a few weeks ago and I’ve also stopped using the categories. I left them on because I didn’t want to change the archives.’  I’m still looking for a way to deal with dual language posts: Wordpress seems not to support natively multiple languages (we talked [...]

Tags: , community, fsf, fund raising, riaa, wordpress

I’m not sure that Bill Hilf’s declarations about Microsoft’s Open Source strategy give a complete picture of the corporate strategy in the near future to compete in a sector that radically changed since Windows came to light in the ’90s. I think that Microsoft is being disrupted and will have to split and go [...]

Tags: apple, business, competition, disruption, floss, gates, google, microsoft, ozzie

La Regione Calabria ha prodotto 6 manifesti con foto di giovani calabresi cui si sovrappongono degli slogan vuoti, di cui fatico a cogliere il senso. Esempio: Terroni? Sì siamo calabresi. Oppure I peggiori? Sì, siamo calabresi. E altri versi simili visibili qui. Proprio non capisco. Qual’è il messaggio? Cosa ci si aspetta che [...]

Tags: calabria, comunicazione, marketing, polemica, toscani

Open Source ECM: Nuxeo expands sales for vertical markets
Interview with Nuxeo’s CEO by Roberto Galoppini
(tags: nuxeo ecm free+software+business)

magnolia – simple is beautiful – About Magnolia – Magnolia News – Magnolia adopts new GNU Public License v3
Enterprise Content Management System Magnolia Community Edition switches to GPLv3. Good news for GPLv3.
(tags: gplv3 cms webservices magnolia free+software+business)

Microsoft [...]

Campagna choc di Amnesty International. Il dolore è reale, l’attore è stato per 6 ore nella “posizione di stress”. Soluzione al problema del terrorismo o crudeltà ? Io ho risposto, e tu?

Tags: amnesty, diritti umani, tortura, unsubscribe

I have been playing with Facebook lately to check its potential. Everything started when William Ward invited me there in a moment when I was vulnerable (it was before I started the MBA: a few weeks later and I would have gently declined the invitation). In the last weeks I enlarged my network, [...]

Tags: community, facebook, marketing, privacy, social network, web2.0

Philippe Aigrain » Scrutinising the Microsoft WSPP Development AgreementsAnalyse des licences Microsoft pour l’accés à  l’information d’interopérabilité pour les serveurs de fichiers et imprimantes
Philippe Aigrain’s analysis of the deal between Microsoft and the European Commission at the end of the case. I’m still waiting to read the comment by the Samba while FSFE’s president [...]

Ieri ho partecipato alla tavola rotonda dopo il convegno Open Source come modello di business da cui sono rientrato poco impressionato: mi sembrava tutto troppo 1.0, già  visto. Non mi hanno impressionato le ricerche presentate da un dottorando di ingegneria, I modelli manageriali dei progetti Open Source e Qualità  e costi del software Open [...]

Tags: business, conferenza, floss, free software business, open source

Ho avuto la fortuna di leggere il nuovo libro della mia amica Antonella Beccaria “Uno bianca e trame nere. Cronaca di un periodo di terrore“.’  Dopo aver indagato sul clamoroso errore giudiziario (vogliamo chiamarlo così?) sui Bambini di Satana, Antonella si è dedicata ad analizzare il periodo di terrore provocato dalla banda della Uno bianca [...]

Tags: beccaria, creative commons, libri, recensione, uno bianca