Dec 03 2009
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 neutral towards consumers. MySQL is safe also in Oracle’s hands because the project, with so [...]
Nov 02 2009
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 UI will help us further our [Skype's] plans to monopolize the Voice Over IP market with a proprietary [...]
Jul 07 2009
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.
By the end of 2009, 4 billion people will use mobile phones. By 2013, that number [...]
Jul 04 2008
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 sustain developing countries and to improve working conditions of their employees and contractors. So far, [...]
Jun 24 2008
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 other groups involved in the project failed not only to give credit to the Moodle [...]
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Mar 14 2008
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 practices. Fabrizio (Funambol’s CEO) celebrates the sweet victory on his blog mentioning the ’strange’ [...]
Feb 05 2008
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 project to adopt AGPLv3 as soon as it was announced. Open Source is a recognized [...]
Nov 20 2007
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 [...]
Nov 12 2007
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 group that maintains the Creative Commons licenses I think they can do a good [...]
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