Tag Archives: free software business

Funambol asks EU to approve the Oracle+Sun deal

Posted on 3 December, 2009 by Stef

I was very concerned when DG Competition announced that they needed to take more time to investigate the merger of Oracle and Sun because of MySQL. The deal for me seemed not only natural for business reasons, but also naturally … Continue reading →

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Skype open source. Not!

Posted on 2 November, 2009 by Stef

Skype open source? Reading the full announcement on Skype blog: [...]Having an open source UI will help us [...] So, it’s not Skype being open sourced, but it’s only the UI. The full sentence should be: Having an open source … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on mobile cloud computing

Posted on 7 July, 2009 by Stef

Mobile cloud computing represents an opportunity for the free/libre open source software movement that is just as big and radical as cloud computing, maybe even moreso. This is part 1 of a post about it, part 2 will follow shortly. … Continue reading →

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Closer to be perceived as a “Social Cause”

Posted on 4 July, 2008 by Stef

Bradley is right to be excited for the phone call he received from a socially responsible investment company. While social responsibility has become a big issue for many companies, corporate reports focus mainly on projects to protect the environment, to … Continue reading →

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Moodle ripped off, should switch to Affero GPLv3

Posted on 24 June, 2008 by Stef

Roberto reports about the Lazio e-Citizen project chose Moodle to deliver courses to educate elderly citizens (age 60 and more) to use computers and Internet, but they don’t say that openly.’  I found it offensive, that AICA and all the … Continue reading →

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Give the GNU GPL an ‘A’, as in Affero

Posted on 14 March, 2008 by Stef

The GNU Affero General Public License v3 is now officially an ‘open source’ license, approved by the Open Source Initiative. Funambol started the approval process of the best license available to protect copyleft, and business based on it, from predatory … Continue reading →

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Affero GNU GPLv3 evaluated by OSI

Posted on 5 February, 2008 by Stef

As Fabrizio reported, Funambol submitted the Affero GNU’  GPLv3 to the Open Source Initiative for approval (it was my first task as Funambol Community Manager).’  OSI’s stamp on AGPLv3 makes business sense for Funambol, afaik the first big free software … Continue reading →

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Ritorno dal convegno “Open Source come modello di business”

Posted on 20 November, 2007 by Stef

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, … Continue reading →

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Politecnico di Torino launches copyright consulting services

Posted on 12 November, 2007 by Stef

Politecnico di Torino and Regione Piemonte have launced SeLiLi, Servizio Licenze Libere, a service to offer information and consulting services on legal, technological and economical matters regarding copyright licenses. Given the credibility of the Politecnico and in particular to the … Continue reading →

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