The final report of the Licensing and Policy Summit for Software Sharing in Higher Education meeting held in Indianapolis in October 2006 has just been released. It can be found as Final Report (pdf) at summit2006.osnext.org. Here is the cover letter from Brad Wheeler of Indiana University and Dan Greenstein of the Unversity of [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2007
Guidelines and Report of the Licensing and Policy Summit for Software Sharing in Higher Education
March 30, 2007 – 15:17
links for 2007-03-30
March 30, 2007 – 01:23
Intel aims low-cost K-12 laptop at emerging markets
Intel’s entry in the low-cost laptop for education space. Supports Windows and Linux
(tags: open-education)
links for 2007-03-27
March 27, 2007 – 01:22
Global PR Blog Week 2.0 » Blog Archive » Blog SEO: Beyond Counting Links
On blogging, search and tagging. I find examining the search strings people use to find your blog is very helpful, and often surprising.
(tags: blogging via:jamesgovernor)
blog you like a hurricane: Playstation 3 is Folding Up a Storm
On the power of the IBM cell [...]
links for 2007-03-23
March 23, 2007 – 01:21
The Torvalds Transcript: Why I ‘Absolutely Love’ GPL Version 2 – Technology News by InformationWeek
Torvalds: “It [Open Source software] is superior because it’s a lot more fun and because it makes cooperation much easier…” “Open Source is the right thing to do the same way I believe science is better than alchemy.”
(tags: open-source open-source-licenses [...]
John W. Backus, 82, Fortran Developer, Dies
March 20, 2007 – 14:04
I’m of the generation of programmers who first programmed in FORTRAN — I recall reading the FORTRAN manual for the IBM 1130 while in high school — so I noted with interest, and some sense of nostalgia, the obituary in today’s New York Times of John Backus, the leader of the IBM team that developed [...]
Notes on Open Standards, Open Source, and Open Innovation: Harnessing the Benefits of Openness
March 18, 2007 – 15:27
I recently came across Open Standards, Open Source, and Open Innovation: Harnessing the Benefits of Openness (pdf), a balanced and well-researched study on open standards, open-source and openness in general that was released in April 2006.
The report comes from the Committee for Economic Development (CED), an “independent research and policy group of over 200 [...]
A new way of enlisting developer support: OpenLogic
March 18, 2007 – 15:27
I got the following note recently. It’s from a company called OpenLogic, which is pursuing yet another way to make money with open-source, in part by providing support for a selected set of open-source projects by enlisting the services of their developers.
It is exciting to see Jikes included in the list of of 200+ open-source [...]
links for 2007-03-16
March 16, 2007 – 01:25
Why the Office Format Wars are Not Over | Linux Journal
Insightful post from Glyn Moody on open source and open standards. Competition should be on the implemetation of a common standard, not on standards which make it hard to compete.
(tags: open-source open-standards)
DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.
See the Commentary Gentoo in [...]
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