New Collaboration App Opens Service to Public
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| Yesterday we received a press release announcing the public release of
| Dimdim, a new open-source tool for online meetings. We've been testing some
| similar products of late so this caught our eye.
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| The United Nations and Amnesty International are among the global
| organizations now using Dimdim, as is a major U.S. university, which has made
| the service available to the entire faculty and student body. There has also
| been extensive uptake in the distance learning community, including
| moodle.com.
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http://www.voipplanet.com/news/article.php/3740256
I Don’t Want Source Code; I Want App Tone
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| Even the open-source movement is feeling the change: Recent modifications to
| the third revision of the GNU Public License recognize that it’s the service,
| not the source code, that has value — and that any user of the service has
| the rights to its source code. IP-protection firm Palamida’s GPLv3 blog says
| that “in a SaaS arrangement…the opportunity to receive such source code must
| be prominently offered to all users who interact with the program remotely
| over a computer network.”
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http://gigaom.com/2008/04/16/does-source-code-matter/
"If the operating system is in fact a natural monopoly, then what could be
better than having an operating system that nobody owns?"
--James Love
Recent:
Moodle - the open source software that's getting serious
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| One of the biggest outbreaks of open source software has been in the learning
| business and a clear leader is emerging - software called Moodle, now used
| for on-line learning on 40,000 web sites.
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http://www.onrec.com/newsstories/21153.asp
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