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Open Source Policies in San Francisco and California Take Different Paths
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| Like the mayor, California's IT leadership
| recognizes that open source could be a
| money-saver. But it's apparent that the
| state isn't touting open source with quite
| as much gusto as Newsom. "It's not like
| we're giving agencies carte blanche to
| throw up any kind of OSS (open source
| software) that they want," Farley told
| Government Technology last month.
| California's policy "normalizes" the
| state's use of open source software, giving
| "a framework for departments to use OSS out
| of the shadows, more or less," he
| explained.
|
| The state's more cautious approach likely
| stems in part from wariness about security.
| Mark Weatherford, the state's chief
| information security officer, recently
| wrote in a blog post on Govtech.com that he
| has been on both sides of the argument
| about open source.
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http://www.govtech.com/gt/articles/744185
IETF turns introspective with new wiki
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| Assessing how successful an IETF standard has
| become should help the Internet standards
| body, and its working groups, better
| understand the impact of the work it is doing,
| said Dave Crocker, an IETF member and a
| principal at the Internet consulting firm
| Brandenburg InternetWorking. Crocker led the
| creation of the wiki.
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/020410-ietf-turns-introspective-with-new.html
Recent:
IETF Involved In Row Over Patent Potentially Covering New TLS Standard
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| In an e-mail message sent to various mailing lists, Mr Richard Stallman
| argued:
|
| "A patented standard for software is worse than no standard, because it
| functions to augment the patent holder's stranglehold over society. What
| everyone ought to do is resist it.
|
| As long as the IETF allows patented standards for software, anyone can
| argue about any proposed patented standard that it important enough to
| excuse the patent. Others can argue that it is not, but since that is a
| question of judgment, the conclusion is never inevitable. So the risk is
| always broader than it might appear."
|
| Obviously Mr Stallman and, with him FSF, are launching an attempt to use the
| particular Draft standard at stake as a vehicle for launching a broader
| political debate on CII patenting in the wider context of the IETF.
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http://www.ipjur.com/blog2/index.php?/archives/39-IETF-Involved-In-Row-Over-Patent-Potentially-Covering-New-TLS-Standard.html
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