Tag Archives: strategy

Wikiedia Crowdsourced its strategic planning process

Posted on 24 February, 2010 by Stef

I’m a firm believer that non-profit organizations need to have a strategy, too. Maybe even more than for-profit ones, because of the constant lack of resources. I’ve been watching without commenting the development of the five-year strategic plan for Wikimedia … Continue reading →

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Will Nokia become FLOSS best friend?

Posted on 17 March, 2009 by Stef

Google’s power is making more people concerned that their motto ‘do no evil’ is not reassuring enough. Fabrizio Capobianco’s blog post summarizes the concerns of the Winston Smith Project. Google is scary because it controls the access point to the … Continue reading →

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Nokia and the L of smart freedom

Posted on 14 January, 2009 by Stef

The good news today is that Nokia relicensed the Qt (pr: cute) libraries under the GNU Lesser General Public License, demonstrating that the mobile ecosystem is where things happen. The GNU Lesser GPL is a license that allows non-free and … Continue reading →

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How Apple will dramatically increase revenues

Posted on 17 October, 2008 by Stef

My architecture professors repeated ad infinitum that an image is worth a thousand words. Following is a pictures that clearly shows how Apple will dramatically increase its revenues in the next year: It’s not (only) the cool design or the … Continue reading →

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Ozzie talks about FLOSS and FLOSS advocates talk back

Posted on 22 April, 2008 by Stef

Lots of talking about Microsoft lately.’  As I expected, Ray Ozzie’s public appearances are increasing with declarations of love for the magic word interoperability and with a new, more open, attitude.’  I believe it’s true that “Microsoft fundamentally, as a … Continue reading →

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