Tag Archives: free software

Ryzom is free as in freedom software

Posted on 6 May, 2010 by Stef

Ryzom is a Massive Multyplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG), a beautiful one, with a very big universe and a lot of users. With the help of FSF, Winch Gate Properties, the copyright holders of Ryzom, released the server and … Continue reading →

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Eben Moglen’s Freedom in the Cloud Talk

Posted on 18 February, 2010 by Stef

I watched Eben’s speech but now I can quote it too thanks to the transcript done by the friends at Software Freedom Law Center. Talking about the problems of the cloud services, Eben hits Facebook hard with his rhetoric: The … Continue reading →

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What Symbian is risking by freeing its code

Posted on 12 February, 2010 by Stef

I honestly cannot understand the fear of forks that is spreading within the Symbian community. Since Symbian Foundation released the full source code of the operating system under the Eclipse Public License I’ve read few comments like the following: I … Continue reading →

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Choose a good license and manage well the community

Posted on 11 February, 2010 by Stef

Some of the things that Mike Tienman said in this interview with InternetNews.com I could have said myself. I have come to believe that a license alone is neither a secret to success nor an absolution of sin. Exactly: choosing … Continue reading →

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How To Mix Agile And Software Developed By A Community

Posted on 23 November, 2009 by Stef

Back from Italian Agile Day where Stefano Fornari of Funambol with Marco Abis of Sourcesense animated a debate about mixing Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) and Agile development methods. I used to think that there was no issue because, after … Continue reading →

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Perché ristabilire il senso di comunità porta al successo

Posted on 11 November, 2009 by Stef

Ho tenuto oggi una lezione di tre ore al Social Media Lab dello IULM dal titolo Etica della società digitale, ovvero perché ristabilire il senso di comunità porta al successo. Oggi ho avuto la conferma che il software libero ormai … Continue reading →

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Stallman comments on CodePlex Foundation

Posted on 6 October, 2009 by Stef

We’ll have to judge the new foundation by its actions, but as a start there are no promising signs that this will contribute in any way to the free software movement. Instead, the foundation seems designed to increase the amount … Continue reading →

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Free Software Debate Antipatterns – robmyers

Posted on 2 October, 2009 by Stef

A collection of fallacious arguments commonly encountered in debates about Free Software. via Free Software Debate Antipatterns – robmyers.

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Mobile Cloud Computing, Part II: Where do We go From Here?

Posted on 17 July, 2009 by Stef

Mobile cloud is going to be big, according to a study published by ABI research. And they’re not the only ones to say so. In this second part of my thoughts about mobile cloud — which I hope we can … 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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