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Wanted: More Open Source Research
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| Look up open source. You'll get 203,000,000
| results. How come? While credit goes to many,
| including Bruce Perens, who chose the term, I
| see widespread usage largely as the direct
| result of a "call to the community" by Eric S.
| Raymond on 8 February 1998. Plus the runaway
| successes of Linux, Apache and thousands of
| other open source code bases, and the Internet
| they all run on. (And the Net is essentially a
| pile of open and free protocols.)
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/wanted-more-open-source-research
Recent:
- From Free to Recovery
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| As my fellow OSI board member (and report draft author
| Rishab Ghosh) explains "If you cannot quantify these
| exit costs, then you should limit them. If you cannot
| limit them, then you either need other software, or you
| need better criteria." When the question is "How do we
| wasting $1T USD per year on ITC spending?", the answer
| is that we're using inferior tools when superior tools
| are available. When the question is "Why are we wasting
| so much year after year after year?" the answer is
| proprietary lock-in that was never part of our initial
| procurement calculations. I have spoken with
| procurement people around the world in both the public
| and private sectors, and the single best way we can
| help them do the best job is for a line of business (or
| a public adminstrations) to communicate clearly and
| concretely the message that exit costs are real costs,
| and should be considered in all tenders. They have the
| necessary expertise to see that those costs are
| properly evaluated in the context of future
| procurements.
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http://opensource.org/node/471
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