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Friday
10Oct
Pentagon is preparing guidelines for open-source adoption
October 10, 2008 By Matt Asay (CNET Blogs)
Given the widespread adoption of open-source software within the US federal government, including the US Department of Defense, it's perhaps not surprising that the regulation-heavy federal government is finally getting around to issuing guidelines for open-source adoption within the US Department of Defense...
Thursday
09Oct
Red Hat: It's the value, stupid
October 9, 2008 By Matt Asay (CNET Blogs)
First off, while it wasn't a joy fest for Red Hat today at the NYSE, I was surprised to learn that CIOs are still upbeat, at least as far as Red Hat is concerned. Cormier told me, "I had so many people say to me today, 'Wow! I get it.'"
What is "it"?
"It," as each executive told me in turn, is value. When I asked whether enterprises buy Red Hat technologies primarily because of open source, Cormier responded, "No. It's the value. It's completely value. The fact that it's open source helps, but it's really value."
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Open Source Red Hat Thursday
09Oct
Open source and software protectionism?
October 9, 2008 By Savio Rodrigues (InfoWorld)
Are emerging countries displaying a form of protectionism by supporting local use of open source? Or is this a small price to pay for a more vibrant software market of the future?
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Open Source Government Wednesday
08Oct
Has open source won--or has it lost?
October 8, 2008 By Gordon Haff (CNET)
Assessing the open-source scorecard is complicated. A complete "state of open source" would fill many pages. But here are a few things that have struck me over the past year or two.
Large swaths of open source have become mainstream--to the point of invisibility. Jay Lyman summed this up well in the context of the last LinuxWorld. We've also seen large vendors, such as Hewlett-Packard and IBM, generally de-emphasizing Linux and open source as businesses in their own right.
Just to be clear, invisible is absolutely not the same thing as irrelevant. However, some open-source fans who feel the need to ally themselves with a highly visible movement taking on "the enemy" find this shift troubling.
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Open Source Tuesday
07Oct
Mono 2.0 is out!
October 7, 2008 By Miguel de Icaza (Web log)
Today we released Mono 2.0 to the world. This of course would not be possible without the open source contributors that worked tirelessly on Mono sending patches, fixing bugs, helping the community, answering questions, creating test cases and supporting us all these years.
Mono 2.0 is both a runtime for application and a kit for developers for writing applications with C# and other ECMA CLI languages for a wide spectrum of uses.
Tuesday
07Oct
You get what you pay for: Paid contributors drive open source
October 7, 2008 By Joe Brockmeier (ZDNet Blogs)
What’s the difference between a paid contributor to a FOSS project and a volunteer contributor? According to a paper by Evangelia Berdou, quite a bit. Berdou finds that paid developers take up key positions in projects, while volunteers often work on the periphery. In other words — much of the heavy lifting in open source is done thanks to corporations that have an interest in open source.
Also In Open Source Development, Does Money Change Everything? (Ostatic)
and Differences between paid and volunteer FOSS contributors (FOSS Bazaar)
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Open Source Saturday
04Oct
Up and coming Microsoft technologies in open source
October 4, 2008 By Michael Herndon (Open Source connections)
Typically speaking in the past, critics would have laughed or promptly smashed any one who supported the “evil empire” in any way, shape, or form. However, times change and the pendulum swings. Thanks to people like Scott GU, there has been much change to how Microsoft is doing development and relating to developers who work on their platform. Granted its not perfect or without incident, but there is change from within the evil empire.
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Open Source Microsoft Friday
03Oct
Microsoft changes the Managed Extensibility Framework License
October 3, 2008 By Miguel de Icaza (web log)
A couple of weeks ago I suggested that developers interested in having their .NET software run in other platforms should avoid Microsoft's Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) as it was not an open source library. Today Glenn announced that Microsoft has changed the license for MEF to the open source MS-PL license.
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Open Source Microsoft Thursday
02Oct
Linux Foundation statement on IBM IT standards policy
October 2, 2008 By Jim Zemlin (Blog)
Linux Foundation member IBM announced its adoption of a new corporate policy that will govern its global participation in the standards development process.
The Linux Foundation applauds this action, and supports IBM’s call for raising the bar in the standards development process. In particular, the Foundation, which uniquely supports both open source software and open standards, appreciates IBM’s leadership in recognizing the importance of promoting the advancement of these two essential technology tools in a coordinated way.
Wednesday
01Oct
Microsoft finally acknowledges that open source is mainstream
October 1, 2008 By Matt Asay (CNET Blogs)
The open-source software in question is jQuery, an excellent open-source javascript library that Microsoft will be including in its Visual Studio application development platform.
Microsoft is too big and too important a company to have ignored the missing ingredient in its open-source strategy: contribution back to existing communities. Open source can be a fantastic complement to Microsoft's existing products and to its businesses. Open source is a tool. It's a means to an end, not an end in and of itself.
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