Archive for the tag 'saas'

Jul 07 2009

Thoughts on mobile cloud computing

Published by Stef under business, community, eng

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 [...]

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Jun 24 2008

Moodle ripped off, should switch to Affero GPLv3

Published by Stef under business, community

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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Jun 05 2008

Freedom and privacy in hosted applications

Published by Stef under business, eng

I’m not a big believer of hosted applications mainly because they fail to deliver the ‘run everywhere there is a connection to the internet’ promise. Nonetheless, I’m using hosted apps very often, especially for school papers where I have to collaborate with other people on one document. In these cases I would like to have [...]

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Mar 14 2008

Give the GNU GPL an ‘A’, as in Affero

Published by Stef under business, eng, funambol

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’ [...]

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