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Read More »Every company should have an open source strategy and policy – or at least cover open source in their company's policy. Even if they don't use open source software, they should have a policy saying whether or not they could use open source or who would have to decide. Otherwise they'll end up wasting developer [...]
Read More »Matt Asay points out that it takes time and work to contribute to an open source software project. What suprised me was that he seems upset (or perhaps disappointed) that it's so hard for an outside person to contribute to an open source software project. First off, it's not hard to contribute small things. Small [...]
Read More »[From the Open Source Census August newsletter.] In the previous newsletter we looked at the breakdown of Linux Distributions. Many people have since asked us how open source software compares across different operating systems like Linux, Windows, and Mac, so we decided to take a look at the average number of open source packages found by [...]
Read More »I uploaded some of the Open Source Census data into Many Eyes and I've been having great fun playing with the data. (You can play with it yourself.) Here are some of the visualizations I've created: Word map: Bubble map:
Read More »This week theme has been "who's going to pay for open source?" It's shown up in a number of blogs, like Matt Asay's. In several blog posts he's said things like "Who will pay for open source in the future?" and "Someone has to pay for this stuff, and it's not going to be governments." [...]
Read More »Sam Dean posted a good list of places to find open source software related webinars, free webinars on free software. One of the resources is OpenLogic's archive of webinars. OpenLogic's webinars cover topics that are interesting to open source software users in the enterprise. Some of them we do ourselves but other times we bring [...]
Read More »InfoWorld put out their 2008 Best of Open Source Software Awards (BOSSIES) and SourceForge put out their Community Choice Awards. I thought it would be interesting to see how prevalant these products were in the Open Source Census findings. Not all the projects had fingerprints in Open Source Census so I just focused on those [...]
Read More »Question: Is it theft if the other person still has it? Answer: It can be. However, in the evolution of the human species, this is a relatively new concept. You can steal software, songs, and wifi connections – but yet the other person still has their copy. I think this is why so many people [...]
Read More »The Software Freedom Law Center has published a very detailed guide on how to comply with the GPL, A Practical Guide to GPL Compliance. It discusses everything from common violations to how to include source code to what to do if you get the dreaded "you are in trouble" letter. Worth a read for any [...]
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