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XAware at the Heart of New Mexico’s Innovative Public Safety Information
Sharing Program
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| XAware, Inc., a leading provider of commercial open source data integration
| software, today announced its solution is a critical component in a public
| safety information sharing program operated by the State of New Mexico’s
| Justice Information Sharing Council (JISC) under the New Mexico Sentencing
| Commission. XAware’s data integration capabilities enable New Mexico to
| operate an innovative system for accessing and sharing information from
| criminal agencies in a way that is secure, efficient and cost-effective.
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http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20090209005692&newsLang=en
AccesStream Moves One Step Closer to a Version 1 General Availability Release
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| AccesStream, a provider of open source enterprise identity access management
| and security solutions, is pleased to announce the beta 2 release of its
| identity access management solution to the open source community. The Beta 2
| release is the second of three beta releases to culminate with the Version 1
| general availability release at the beginning of April. The source code is
| available for immediate download and testing from AccesStream’s website. This
| open source initiative will allow developers worldwide to participate in the
| progress of the Accesstream project.
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http://www.pr.com/press-release/130930
"The government is not trying to destroy Microsoft, it’s simply seeking to
compel Microsoft to obey the law. It’s quite revealing that Mr. Gates equates
the two."
--Government official
Recent:
Free software isn't freeware: why Linux and FOSS have a higher standard
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| Microsoft's recent survey proclaimed nearly half the population believe it is
| ok to use pirated software for personal use. This diminishes the argument by
| Linux advocates that you can use their operating system without any cost.
| Yet, you can't confuse free as in cost with free as in freedom. Here's what
| FOSS really means.
|
| [...]
|
| Worse, when the company ceased it was no longer possible to get maintenance
| even if you agreed to the fee. So, when your current license period lapsed
| that was it; businesses had possibly years and years of important information
| which was plain and simply no longer accessible. Even though it was their own
| data.
|
| By stark contrast, if a FOSS program went belly-up you’d never be stuck. Your
| documents, your data, your information would be available forever because the
| specifications are always available – as encoded within the program source
| code.
|
| Once again, you don’t have to be a programmer for this to benefit you. You
| might be the CEO of a major business. However, you can find someone – even if
| you need to hire them – to help out. You can rest easy that your electronic
| data can always be opened if it has been stored in a FOSS file format.
|
| Remember, just because FOSS has the word “free” in it, it’s not the same as
| freeware. FOSS may not cost anything but it’s “free” in a broader sense. It’s
| free to use in any way you require. More than this, it’s free from risk.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/23097/1143/
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