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Geospatial: An Open Source Microcosm
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| General purpose open source software (OSS) has been on the radar of decision
| makers for almost a decade. Big projects like Linux, Apache, Firefox and Open
| Office are supported by Fortune 500 companies like IBM and Sun. Everyone
| knows about open source, it is in their plans, books have been written. In
| general information technology (IT), there is little more to say about open
| source.
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http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=3065&trv=1
Why We Need Open Data
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| The same post gives perhaps the best explanation of why open data is
| important; it's nominally about open data in science, but its points are
| valide elsewhere too:
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| * Science rests on data. Without complete data, science is flawed.
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| * Many of todays global challenges require scientific data. Climate,
| Health, Agriculture…
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| * Scientists are funded to do research and to make the results available
| to everyone. This includes the data. Funders expect this. So does the
| world.
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| * The means of dissemination of data are cheap and universal. There is no
| technical reason why all the data in all the chemistry research in the
| world should not be published into the cloud. It’s small compared with
| movies…
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| * Data needs cleaning, flitering, repurposing, re-using. The more people
| who have access to this, the better the data and the better the science.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/03/why-we-need-open-data.html
Born a Creationist, Merck’s Schadt Leads Open Source Effort to Unravel Genome
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| One of the world’s brightest minds at analyzing human DNA was born into a
| family of creationists. When he was 17 and graduating from high school in a
| rural area of southwestern Michigan, Eric Schadt couldn’t even imagine going
| to college.
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| “My parents were very religious,” Schadt told me on a visit to his office
| last week. They didn’t emphasize education, and neither did the community, he
| says. “Higher education just wasn’t something that people looked forward to
| there. I didn’t really know what college was.”
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http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2009/03/13/born-a-creationist-mercks-schadt-leads-open-source-effort-to-unravel-genome/
Recent:
Towards an Open Source Legal Operating System
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| An informed democratic society needs open access to the law, but states'
| attempts to protect copyright interests in their laws are a major roadblock.
| This article urges broader access, analyzes the implications and legal
| arguments for and against copyright in the law, and considers strategies for
| access advocacy.
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http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1347158
A new era dawns for open source
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| Open source has some specific advantages for New Zealand and in these
| recessionary times. It provides source code for free that can be modified,
| subject only to the provision these modifications must be made available to
| the public. For New Zealand, with its small market, this means customisation
| to meet regional differences can more easily be undertaken. For example,
| American zip codes can be changed to postal codes; VAT can be changed to GST;
| and numeric dates can be set in the correct order.
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http://reseller.co.nz/reseller.nsf/feat/2FF21196A906472ACC257565006F2884
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