Archive for the 'Open Source' Category
Collaboration Is Just Good Business
Last week at the Open World Forum, I had the pleasure of attending Michael Tiemann’s talk on the “Road to the Digital Recovery”. Michael kindly summarized his key points on his blog.
The most interesting sound bite from Michael’s talk was his estimate that $1 trillion is wasted every year in ICT spending. His logic is:
…18% [...]
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Welcome to the EPL
A bit of good news for the Eclipse Public License this morning comes from Intuit, which announced that their community site code.intuit.com will be using the EPL.
Intuit had previously decided to use the Common Public License, but when we pointed out that it had been superseded at the OSI by the EPL, they agreed that [...]
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EPL ~= ASL
Boy, am I on some kind of blog binge this week. It’s amazing how a few weeks without travel helps.
Dana Blackenhorn wrote a piece earlier today discussing Matt Asay’s article on why the Apache license is better than the GPL. In his article, he states the following:
If your company wants to release its own code, [...]
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Licenses Matter
I’ve been thinking about posting on this topic for a while, and recent posts by Greg Stein and Eric Raymond have finally motivated me to get off my butt and git ‘er done.
As I mentioned recently, the EPL is on a bit of a roll at the moment. And that is a very good thing. [...]
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