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The Foundations of Openness
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| In March 2007 I went to Oxford University and
| worked on a paper about openness, a topic that had
| become vitally important as we were seeing more and
| more companies jump on the FOSS bandwagon with
| psuedo FOSS projects that were often not at all
| open. This had concerned Jeff and I somewhat and so
| we came up with a model that took into account 5
| core themes - Open Source, Open Standards, Open
| Knowledge, Open Governance and Open Market.
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http://pipka.org/blog/2008/07/23/the-foundations-of-openness/
Sun Exec Proposes Software Freedom Definition and Vendor Scorecard
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| Phipps envisions the score card would have specific
| yes-or-no questions about community governance,
| community-controlled trademarks, and other
| benchmark qualities that help determine a company's
| true openness. "Suppliers could then state 'This
| product achieves 4 stars on the 10-point Open
| Source Audit' as they self-certify. In addition,
| procurement policies could then state they required
| a minimum number of stars for products and services
| they procure. And the only companies that could
| claim to be 'an open source business' would have
| all products scoring 10/10 - probably very, very
| few. A focus on software freedom - the code, rather
| than the company - is the answer to the issue."
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http://ostatic.com/blog/sun-exec-proposes-software-freedom-definition-and-vendor-scorecard
Google Cloudboard
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| Google tests a service called Cloudboard, an online
| clipboard that should make it easy to copy data
| between Gmail, Google Docs and other Google services.
| The service is not publicly available yet, but there
| are many references to it.
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http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/10/google-cloudboard.html?showComment=1255119093510#c6350580718718930604
Recent:
Survey: "Open Core" least popular open source option
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| A survey of 118 enterprise IT and development executives conducted by open
| source solution provider OpenLogic concludes that the "Open Core" model for open
| source licensing trails behind dual licensing and open source with commercial
| support, in terms of acceptability to the enterprise.
|
| [...]
|
| These findings suggest that what enterprises are looking for ideally is a
| project backed by a community and multiple vendors, such as the Linux kernel.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/Survey-Open-Core-least-popular-open-source-option--/news/114212
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