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[nuBuilder Released as Open Source]
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| Our nuBuilder development tool has been
| so useful to us that we have now decided
| to release nuBuilder under the GPLv3 Open
| Source licence model.
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http://www.nubuilder.com/nubuilderwww/
Open Core: The worst of both worlds
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| In the end open core software is driven
| by the same incentives as proprietary
| software is. Therefore it suffers from
| the same problems: too much focus on
| features and too little on quality.
| Thatâs the downside of proprietary
| software. But it also inherits the
| problems of open source software. Because
| of the open source community editions you
| have to worry about forks taking your
| customers (e.g. vtiger). To top it off
| they also need to compete against their
| own developer community who will
| reimplement the closed enterprise
| features as add-ons for the open source
| edition. This magnifies the problems
| caused by the feature treadmill and leads
| to a rapid decline in quality.
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http://www.jejik.com/articles/2009/10/open_core_the_worst_of_both_worlds/
Open Source Scorecard to be proposed to OSI
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| Simon Phipps, an Open Source Initiative
| (OSI) Board Observer, is to propose that
| the organisation create an open source
| scorecard, which would allow projects and
| companies to be certified as attaining a
| score based on how free the project was.
| Phipps was considering the issue of
| distinguishing between open source
| projects and the various business models
| after debates about "open core" and "open
| source business models" at the Open World
| Forum 2009.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/Open-Source-Scorecard-to-be-proposed-to-OSI--/news/114433
Recent:
A question of bias
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| According to Techworld, Jonathan Zuck of the Association for Competitive
| Technology (ACT) has recently accused the European Commission of having a
| bias in favor of open source. This is an interesting claim for a number of
| reasons, not least of which is the question "who is the ACT?" and "what are
| they doing in the halls of the European Commission?". But the question of
| reported bias is also an interesting one, and characterizes on of the great
| philosophical and political challenges of our age.
|
| The great American experiment of democratically electing its government
| quickly evolved beyond the political sphere. By 1835, when Alexis de
| Tocqueville published Democracy In America, the effect of democratic choice
| could be seen affecting wages, religion, attitudes towards war and peace, and
| even the English language itself.
|
| [...]
|
| And so we have an actor, Jonathan Zuck, using lines from a story that
| confound and abuse any notion of objective truth. By leading with an
| accusation of bias, it is philosophically impossible to discern what is the
| proper choice and what is not, because no truth, in that frame, is better
| than any other. The result: a stagnation of dialogue and the preservation of
| the status quo.
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http://opensource.org/node/447
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