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Open Letter to the Irish Government on Open Source Driven Innovation
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| âRecent years show that openness and collaboration is
| essential to the generation of innovation in the
| software sector. Technology increasingly means software.
| In Ireland, we can see that the production of hardware
| technology in many, but not all, cases is providing ever
| diminishing returns. Here we outline some key policy
| recommendations that are crucial to the fulfilling the
| vision of making the Irish Smart Economy a reality for
| the software industry through the adoption and
| encouragement of Open Source technologies.â
|
| The above extract is from a paper we have produced for
| the Innovation Taskforce is requesting submissions by
| the Department of Taoiseach.
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http://www.theirishpenguin.com/2009/09/18/open-letter-to-the-irish-government-on-open-source-driven-innovation/
DK: Competition authority wants EC's take on office market competition
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| The Danish Competition Authority wants to discuss with
| the European Commission how to enhance competition in
| the market for office software. It thinks the Danish
| public sector is too small to do this by itself.
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| An appointment with the Commission has not yet been
| made. "We have awaited the translation of the report",
| says Michael Fibiger, chief special advisor to the
| Danish Competition Authority.
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http://www.osor.eu/news/dk-competition-authority-wants-ecs-take-on-office-market-competition
Recent:
Marketplace for minds and ideas
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| Explaining this is not easy. The ideagora originated in open source computing
| and projects such as Linux, the server operating system. This well-known
| public collaboration resulted in a computer operating system to challenge
| that of the dominant Microsoft.
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| But here Tapscott and Wilson's book reveals an ingredient little known to
| non-professional watchers of Linux.
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| Computer giant and Microsoft competitor IBM expended huge resources
| supporting Linux development, to the tune of around â1.4 billion by the end
| of 2001. What appears the perfect case study of public collaboration looks
| significantly different on closer inspection.
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| Nonetheless, the values of the open source movement - self-organising
| communities that reward contributors with enhanced reputation rather than
| cash - appear to have a strong future in the wider transformation of
| business, in the shape of the ideagora.
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http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/innovation/2008/0922/1221998222201.html
Northern Ireland plugs open source hybrid
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| COUNCILS across Northern Ireland are being encouraged to join a co-operative
| software movement that has stood in defiance of the occupation of government
| computer departments by multinational suppliers in big-ticket deals.
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| The Northern Ireland Department of the Environment has advised the country's
| 26 councils to join the Local Authority Content Management System (LA CRM)
| partnership, which develops its system collaboratively with councils across
| the UK under the lead of Belfast City Council.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/08/15/northern-ireland-plugs-open
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