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How and Why Contributing to FOSS Can Benefit Your Organization
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| A Linux distribution is a carefully culled
| collection of software from these upstream
| projects which makes a complete operating
| system and even includes a lot of
| application software. This collection of
| software is tested and prepared to run
| securely and maintainably together. Debian
| is built upon this model.
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| Some distributions of Linux use Debian as
| a source project unto itself. There are a
| number of Linux distributions based on
| Debian, including the popular KNOPPIX and
| Ubuntu distributions. Being âbased on
| Debianâ can mean several things, but it
| primarily means they draw from the
| software repository at some point in the
| release cycle, and they use the Advanced
| Packaging Tool (apt) to manage this
| software. In these cases Debian is an
| intermediary between the original FOSS
| project and the âchildrenâ distributions
| which may also pull from original software
| projects to expand upon what Debian
| provides to target their particular focus.
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http://opensource.sys-con.com/node/1339118/print
Do we need open source vendors?
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| One of the biggest misconceptions about
| open source software (OSS) in the
| enterprise is that it is software that can
| be rolled out without the involvement of a
| vendor. But in reality, in any enterprise
| software deployment, there will always be
| someone that needs to play the role that
| the vendor plays in the commercial
| software space.
|
| What I do mean when I say that there will
| always need to be a vendor? To put it
| simply, I believe that there will always
| need to be someone you can count on to
| provide the support and services that you
| canât depend on the open source community
| to provide.
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http://www.techleader.co.za/readerblog/2010/05/17/do-we-really-need-open-source-vendors/
Collaboration is king.
New Hampshire Libraries Band Together for their Implementation of Koha
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| ByWater Solutions, an open source
| community supporter and official Koha
| support company, announced today that The
| Monadnock Library Community of New
| Hampshire has partnered with them for the
| installation and support of the community
| version of the Koha integrated library
| system.
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http://linuxpr.com/releases/12090.html
Recent:
Open-source companies log impressive growth in Q2 2009
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| Those "advocates" are funding the payrolls of a range of open-source
| companies. Here are just a few examples of those benefiting from this
| enterprise shift to open source:
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| * The VAR Guy (@thevarguy) reports that both xTuple and Sopera are
| profitable. While he doesn't comment on how much they're doing in sales,
| profitability is, in itself, a significant achievement...
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10282668-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
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