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Northern Ireland plugs open source hybrid
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| COUNCILS across Northern Ireland are being encouraged to join a co-operative
| software movement that has stood in defiance of the occupation of government
| computer departments by multinational suppliers in big-ticket deals.
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| The Northern Ireland Department of the Environment has advised the country's
| 26 councils to join the Local Authority Content Management System (LA CRM)
| partnership, which develops its system collaboratively with councils across
| the UK under the lead of Belfast City Council.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/08/15/northern-ireland-plugs-open
- From this proprietary software company (headed by a former Microsoft employee):
Levin out as Black Duck’s CEO
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| Black Duck Software — a pioneer in the open source legal consulting business
| — has lost its CEO.
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| On Thursday, Douglas Levin, the company founder and a director at the
| Waltham, Mass.-based company, announced his resignation, effective Sept. 1.
|
| The announcement came the same day that a federal appeals court issued a
| decision maintaining that open source licenses are valid under copyright law.
| Black Duck Software is a software and services company that advises
| developers and corporations about open source licensing requirements and
| compliance.
|
| Are the two related?
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| No, Levin said in a broadcast email and blog posted yesterday.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2790
They sell FUD and they sell proprietary software. Seems like good news.
Related:
Palamida: Rival snitched open-source database
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| A day later, Palamida cried foul. "After two days of intense investigation,
| we have confirmed that most of our database has been copied directly--word
| for word and misspelling for misspelling, with very few original additions to
| our initial work," said Palamida spokeswoman Melisa LaBancz-Bleasdale,
| pointing the "blatant plagiarism" finger at Black Duck.
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http://www.news.com/8301-13580_3-9803799-39.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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