Forum: Revisiting our national IP opportunity
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| Last week I noticed that a commentor on the New Zealand Open Source Society
| took issue with the suggestion “GrAnt05s” (sometimes I could hate the
| internet) argues that while my idea may have some immediate appeal “it is
| likely to have some serious unintended consequences”.
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http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/E999B03CF115905ACC257356000AEFD3
Related:
Queensland govt readies open source analytics
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| "Open sourcing Facilitator has been a good result and the code
| from Sourceforge has kept it going," Eisner said. "Open source
| will allow much easier collaboration. Then it would continue on
| and not just disappear. The risk of not open sourcing it is that
| it just dies - so it's a way of keeping it going."
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1787365250&rid=-50
Govt open source survey finds hidden uptake
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| "Why did we do it? It is part of today and our future," Steward said.
| "About half of the responding agencies have piloted, or are using,
| open source in their space."
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| Steward said the views of open source among federal government
| agencies are "positive" and many will look to deploy it in the
| future but part of the barrier is uncertainty over what level of
| support is available if they encounter any problems.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;1448439476;fp;2;fpid;1
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