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Linux: âFreeâ Software vs âYou Get What You Pay Forâ
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| Some may ask, âWhat about those stock
| holders in a company? Wonât their
| dividends suffer in a switch that is
| possibly as disruptive as a switch to FOSS
| and Linux on the corporate desktop?â Sure,
| in the short term, a corporation may spend
| less to stay with proprietary, costly,
| closed source software and keep dividends
| up for stock holders. But anyone with the
| ability to think ahead and plan for long
| term results can see that down the road
| switching to in-house support using FOSS
| and Linux will mean significant savings
| for a corporation in the long term. It
| could also mean more dividends for stock
| holders, those people that Microsoft FUD
| mongers try to point to as blockades for
| moving off of Microsoft. Any company that
| I hold stock in should be thinking in the
| long term and should be switching to FOSS
| and Linux.
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http://blog.eracc.com/2010/06/20/linux-free-software-vs-you-get-what-you-pay-for/
Open source not immune to ERP vendor consolidation trend
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| In a sense, it doesn't matter as much as it
| would if Compiere's original code base was
| proprietary. One of the tenents of open
| source is that no matter what the owner of
| the code does, the users of the code continue
| in their rights to use, extend, enhance, and
| distribute the code. The Adempiere fork of
| Compiere is evidence of this.
|
| To my knowledge, this is the first instance
| of an open source ERP/CRM developer being
| acquired by a vendor of proprietary software.
| It will be interesting to see whether
| Compiere's users are helped or hindered by
| this acquisition.
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http://fscavo.blogspot.com/2010/06/open-source-not-immune-to-erp-vendor.html
GNUmed - job openings
http://gnumed.blogspot.com/2010/06/gnumed-job-openings.html
Recent:
The Real Reason to Celebrate GNU's Birthday
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| One of Stallman's many insights was that science flourished because it was
| based on sharing discoveries so that others could build on them, without
| needing to re-invent the wheel.
|
| The closing of software meant that it was impossible to do this, since the
| last thing that corporate owners of that code wanted to do was to make it
| freely available. Stallman's idea was to create a movement that would
| contribute code to the computing community just as scientists contribute
| knowledge.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=1252&blogid=14
GNU: the revolution turns 25
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| The torrent of coverage that such a momentous event should generate has not
| been seen. That's because the so-called open source movement rules the roost
| these days - and is anxious that people should forget their roots.
|
| People often attribute their dislike of free software to the founder of the
| GNU project, Richard Stallman, and his uncompromising attitude towards many
| things. In the early days of the GNU project, Stallman antagonised quite a
| few free software hackers by his management of the development of GNU Emacs.
|
| Stallman has also been criticised for politicising the free software movement
| by insisting that the distribution terms for GNU software be such that people
| cannot add restrictions of their own.
|
| But those who criticise him on these counts are woefully short-sighted; the
| truth of the matter is that without a person like Stallman who was prepared
| to go out on a limb for a cause, we would all be using proprietary operating
| systems today.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/20601/1090/
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