Enso is Open Source!
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| Why are we doing this?
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| For Enso to have a chance of becoming the universal tool that we envisioned,
| it has to be compatible with an ever-expanding number of applications as well
| as providing an ever-expanding number of commands. For instance, there’s a
| program called GVim; Enso’s text-selection commands are currently
| incompatible with GVim because the latter has a unique way of handling text
| selections. A few users have complained to us about this, and while we’re
| sympathetic, we’ve had to pull a Spock and say “The needs of the many
| outweigh the needs of the few” as we focused the limited resources of our
| 4-person development team on getting the most popular commands to work with
| the most popular applications. The closed-source development model limits
| what we can do. It doesn’t scale well to the problem of an ever-expanding
| number of applications and an ever-expanding number of commands.
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http://www.humanized.com/weblog/2008/03/06/enso-is-open-source
Volantis Opens Up its Mobility Server, Calls for Developers
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| ...Mobility Server application, released under the GNU Public License,
| version three. The code being opened was under development for seven years
| according to company officials, and is available now. It reaches out to
| thousands of mobile device types.
|
| [...]
|
| At the recent Mobile World Congress, over 20 mobile phones based on Linux
| (most of them based on the LiMo platform) were announced. Likewise, open
| source telephony applications such as Asterisk, which does PBX tasks and has
| a large telephony applications toolkit, show a lot of promise.
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http://ostatic.com/158636-blog/volantis-opens-up-its-mobility-server-calls-for-developers
Misys-Allscripts could be big win for open source
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| It might be because Misys Healthcare fulfilled its earlier commitment to open
| source its code last month. Its chief open source officer, Tim Elwell, told
| ZDNet that commitment remains in place.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2141
With lots of GPL-licensed code out there, there's plenty to juggle and build
projects with very rapidly. Growth is exponential.
Recent:
Australian open source workers earn more money
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| IT workers who specialise in free and open source software are earning more
| than the national average for IT, according to the results of Australia's
| first open source census.
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http://www.itnews.com.au/News/69448,open-source-workers-earn-more-money.aspx
The Total Growth of Open Source
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| The significance of open source has been continuously increasing over time.
| Our research validates this claim by looking at the total growth of open
| source. Our work shows that the additions to open source projects, the total
| project size (measured in source lines of code), the number of new open
| source projects, and the total number of open source projects are growing at
| an exponential rate.
|
| Our results open gates for further research around the growth of open source
| and the acceptance of open source in industry and government. Future research
| should explore questions like what factors are influencing this exponential
| growth, how source code growth relates to the number of engaged software
| developers, and whether or how long open source can sustain this exponential
| growth.
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http://www.riehle.org/publications/2008/the-total-growth-of-open-source/
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I ask
| you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
|
| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
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