Open-source tools open democracy's doors
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| According to a Vancouver Web guru, "You can't build a free and open society
| using proprietary software."
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| [...]
|
| Nelson said Drupal started when a Belgian named Dries Buytaert was looking at
| developing an on-line bulletin-board-style system for the co-op he was living
| in, one that would enable people to exchange messages. Buytaert, then a
| university student, still maintains a Web site at buytaert.net/ and,
| according to Nelson, released the Drupal codebase under a GNU licence,
| meaning it conforms to open source.
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http://www.straight.com/article-117320/open-source-tools-open-democracys-doors
How Has Open Source Helped or Hindered?
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| The Ruby on Rails framework of today is a lot more productive than the one I
| was using before it was open sourced
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http://www.sys-con.com/read/457350_p.htm
MySQL AB to Exhibit its Open Source Database at Oracle OpenWorld
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| In the past year, the Independent Oracle Users Group has produced surveys of
| its membership that show that MySQL is an increasingly popular complementary
| database within Oracle customers' IT departments.
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http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/11/prweb567580.htm
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Determining the Value of Open Source Software
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| The decision to put a dollar sign on an open source project depends on its
| application, as does the model used. However, the outcome is likely to
| benefit the developer. With additional services and support behind them,
| development teams can get to market faster with richer feature sets and
| differentiation, while cutting costs significantly. Having a close
| relationship with the open source vendor inspires collaboration and can
| benefit the software developer community as a whole.
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http://java.sys-con.com/read/452357_p.htm
Money or nothing? Trade-offs in FOSS compensation
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| What happens when a free and open source software (FOSS) project
| attempts to introduce compensation for its developers? Because FOSS
| remains based largely on volunteer work, many worry that payment
| might demotivate both those who receive it and those who do not.
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http://community.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/02/23/203207&from=rss
It's All About Freedom
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| A debate often heard among FOSS evangelists across the world, is that using
| software is about "free as in freedom, not free as in beer". The libre vs.
| gratis argument rings no less true for some of the richest corporations in
| the world. I was recently at the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) in
| San Francisco and I was struck by the sheer number of Fortune 500
| corporations talking about their adoption of open source and explaining why
| they've signed onto the movement.
|
| [...]
|
| It's all about freedom: freedom to control, freedom to share, and freedom to
| build the open standards needed to protect the future of freedom.
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http://www.technetra.com/writings/archive/2007/07/02/its-all-about-freedom
Dragging one's feet to open source
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| But, regardless, while you're straddling the fence, please use accurate
| nomenclature. Call it "shared source" or "available source"
| or "look-but-don't-you-dare-touch-and-distribute source," but don't call it
| open source until you offer the right to fork. If the code can't be forked,
| it's just not open source.
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9743248-7.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=NewsBlog
Twisting the Meaning of 'Free'
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| According to CESC Ltd chief information officer Subroto Das, “There is
| nothing called free software”. I beg to differ.
|
| In an article titled, Free software wars re-ignite (warning: many pop-ups),
| Indranil Chakraborty writes about the continuing war between the Free/Open
| Source Software movement and the non-free software camp. It really has not
| re-ignited; it continues.
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http://blue-gnu.biz/node/30
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