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Retail Software: Proprietary, Bespoke, or Open Source?
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| For growing retailers particularly those in the multi-channel retail market,
| technology can be a major hurdle to the smooth growth of the business.
| Software vendors can foster innovation at best and constrain development at
| worst.
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http://www.sourcewire.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=43056&hilite=
Open source valuations remain birdseed
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| Much of the value in open source is money that customers aren’t spending,
| value which is plowed into other businesses, far beyond software.
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| The nature of asset value is also different. The code is the chief asset of
| open source, while in the proprietary world it’s generally goodwill.
|
| And that code, as we’ve seen, is immensely valuable. But who holds that
| value? No one person or company does. Everyone does.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=3068
How is a culture that reinvents the wheel and monopolises (i.e. pressures
others out of the market) a good thing for science and development?
Recent:
Stanford offers free CS, robotics courses
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| Stanford University has launched a series of 10 free, online computer science
| (CS) and electrical engineering courses. The courses span an introduction to
| computer science and an introduction to artificial intelligence and robotics,
| among other topics.
|
| The free courses are being offered “to students and educators around the
| world” under the auspices of Stanford Engineering Everywhere (SEE). Each
| course comprises downloadable video lectures, handouts, assignments, exams,
| and transcripts.
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http://www.deviceguru.com/2008/09/17/stanford-frees-cs-robotics-courses/
Committee sets goals for open-source info
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| The National Open Source Committee, whose members include representatives of
| the government’s intelligence agencies, announced four goals today for using
| publicly available data, which officials call open source. They made the
| announcement at the Open Source Conference 2008 in Washington.
|
| The goals are universal domain access to allow for the greatest possible
| availability of the data, an integrated mission for its use across
| government, an increase in expertise in using open-source data and a
| governance model that ensures that its use aligns with the priorities of the
| Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
|
| Open-source data is information that is publicly available and legally
| obtainable, including pamphlets, Web sites, videos, white papers, news
| articles and academic reports. It has become an increasing focus of ODNI.
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http://www.fcw.com/online/news/153757-1.html
Open Source: The Textbooks of the Future
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| In America, where I live, and across much of the northern hemisphere, kids
| are heading back to school. I’m no longer in school, but everyone in my
| family save for me works in one. One of the biggest issues facing schools
| today is how to keep textbooks up to date in a cost effective manner, and
| make them more manageable and affordable for students. K-12 science
| textbooks, for example, published before August 24, 2006 likely talk about
| the 9 planets in our solar system. Except two years ago, the science world
| decided that there were just 8 planets.
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http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/09/12/open-source-the-textbooks-of-the-future/
http://tinyurl.com/3msp5e
Open Source Textbooks Challenge a Paradigm
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| A small, digital book startup thinks it has a solution to the age-old student
| lament: overpriced textbooks that have little value when the course is over.
| The answer? Make them open source -- and give them away.
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| Flat World Knowledge is the brainchild of two former textbook industry
| executives who learned from the inside about the wacky economy of textbooks.
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http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/09/open-source-tex.html
The World Wide Textbook
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| A new project aims to develop low-cost, open-source textbooks for use
| in the developing world
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| [...]
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| Each of the proposed open-source books has an editor-in-chief
| responsible for putting together a chapter outline and rough
| description, and ensuring that the text comes together in a
| cohesive manner.
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http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/content/dec2006/bs20061211_681192.htm
Open Shakespeare aims to free the Bard
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| The project was formed under the aegis of the Open Knowledge
| Foundation, whose stated mission is the promotion and development
| of "open knowledge."
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| "We have had quite a bit of contact with the Free Software Foundation
| and Creative Commons in one way or another," says project leader
| Rufus Pollock, who is a member of the Creative Commons UK team,
| "but we aren't working with either of them on anything specific
| at present."
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http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/10/19/1517207&from=rss
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