When Oracle announced that it would compete with Red Hat for the support business of Red Hat’s own customers, it also sent a message intended to comfort the Linux community,...
...decision. When you boil it down, it comes to these three points: Open source licenses, Creative Commons licenses, and particularly “free and open source licenses” (like the GNU Public License,...
...well as technical – the Swik community site is under a Creative Commons license) to enable yet another wave of conceptualization, and so on, into the future. The best innovation...
...beside him. Frank, eyes still wide in shock, turned to see that the person who had spoken was the man that had been examining him in the mirror. He was...
...IT companies (and especially those headquartered in the U.S.) take. That is to say, when a Chinese company, group of companies, or Federal commercial planner identifies a standard or group...
...the emotions that are aroused in the commercial community when it comes to standards. Indeed, the simple question of what makes a standard “open” subsumes almost every difficult, standards-related issue that...
...of beef in some meat locker (sorry, Rocky). Though not as ubiquitous as the free open source community’s favorite son, the commercially developed SoftMaker Office has proven itself to be...
...and benchmarks, technology roadmaps, best-practice guidebooks, software standards and interfaces, as well as certified training, conferences, and publications. The Forum also provides its member community with marketing and networking opportunities....
...can’t cut and paste from most eBooks, that meant that I had to retype those long links, or come up with a Google search that would allow me to navigate...
...desktop as well. Let’s start by setting the scene. The in-car computing system has been a focus of competitive jockeying ever since computer chips first found their way under the...