...from using innovation, or to charge for the privilege of doing so. This leaves open source software, and particularly community software (as compared to FOSS that is supported by major...
...and (to a lesser extent) communications technology industries have come to rely heavily upon consortia to supply their standards needs. But even as this parallel universe of standard setting has...
...the community manager and editor for the Linux Developer Network. We’re extremely lucky to lure Brian away from Jupiter Media, where he built a thriving community and reported on Linux...
...in government, and can include other categories, for example, ODF advancement in education, community or rural development. In your nomination, please be sure to include: -name of person/entity -email address...
...well funded commercial competitor, much less an open source project, to equal Office for features, performance and interoperability with other office suites? At the same time, people keep trying -...
...In fairness to the attorneys at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the regulatory body that led the effort in the U.S., it is not really possible to make direct comparisons...
...The winner will be determined by a combination of online community ranking and a panel of judges that includes: • Andrew Morton, lead Linux kernel maintainer; • Stephen O’Grady, co-founder,...
... 4. The customer has been both educated and comforted. Free and open source software is new enough that most potential users and commercial customers had little accurate knowledge about it...
...post-World War I Maginot Line. As recent events have demonstrated, the powers of developers are limited when compared to the power of a Fortune 500 company, like Oracle, if...
...activity when the computer revolution began to take off rather than compete with each other. If consortia had never come into being, the great majority of the standards that they in...