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If You Love Your Data, Set It Free
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| The move is in the ownership of data value to the very people who really need
| it, who help define its analysis, and who can best use it for business and
| consumption advantage. Analysis and productivity values rule the future of
| data as services.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/64142.html
Yahoo's Fire Eagle Soars Out of Beta
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| The launch opens up new possibilities for developers. Because the platform is
| open, any service can put the data to use -- and plenty already are.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/64150.html
Recent:
WordPress is Open Source
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| Six Apart has recently decided that the best way to win back customers
| fleeing their platforms is to target WordPress, which is a new strategy they
| call competing. (What have they been doing the past 7 years?) A good example
| is this exchange between a commenter on Valleywag and Byrne Reese, the lead
| developer of Movable Type:
|
| Sundown: “@anildash: what part of Wordpress is not open source?”
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| byrnereese: “@Sunnduwn - I think that is a question better asked of
| Automattic. Anil, and certainly not Six Apart, has never been briefed, nor
| has anyone for that matter been presented with an accounting of what is open
| and closed source at Automattic.”
|
| Okay, here’s some accounting:
|
| WordPress is 100% open source, GPL.
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| All plugins in the official directory are GPL or compatible, 100% open
| source.
|
| bbPress is 100% GPL.
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| WordPress MU is 100% open source, GPL, and if you wanted you could take it
| and build your own hosted platform like WordPress.com, like edublogs.org has
| with over 100,000 blogs.
|
| There is more GPL stuff on the way, as well. :)
|
| Could you build Typepad or Vox with Movable Type? Probably not, especially
| since people with more than a few blogs or posts say it grinds to a halt, as
| Metblogs found before they switched to WordPress.
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http://ma.tt/2008/03/wordpress-is-open-source/
How The GPL Can Save Your Ass
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| If you are the multi-billion dollar IT industry you stick you head in the
| sand and just keep making cars. It is after all, not your problem. That seems
| to be the attitude of almost every company with a vested interest in the
| computing market. There was a recent announcement indicating Intel and
| Microsoft have put up $10 million to fund research in parallel software. Hah!
| I'm going to laugh harder this time HAH, HAH! Ever here the phase pissing in
| the ocean, well this is more like throwing a match into the sun. We need
| more -- much more.
|
| [...]
|
| Using the GPL will immediately remove issues that would normally choke such
| an important undertaking. First, the any IP barriers get pushed aside and
| everyone can cooperate openly
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http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5379
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