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• Open Source.
• Open Source .
• Open Books.
• One seeks to increase the collective IQ of the software development community by loosening industry's grip on intellectual property. ...
• In one corner stands the Free Software Foundation, conceived, championed, and largely engineered by the impracticably messianic Richard Stallman. In the other, the Open Source Initiative, advanced most prominently by the cantankerous, opinionated, and confrontational Eric Raymond. ...
• Both sides agree that distributing a computer program's source code -- the essential blueprints required to modify the program -- is a good thing. Both believe that empowering users with the opportunity to change and extend their software will have a positive, reinvigorating effect on software development at large. ...
• Eric Raymond's Open Source Initiative (OSI), on the other hand, is galvanized by the rather more utilitarian revelation that users are much less clueless than previously imagined, and that enlistment of their cooperation -- by allowing them to contribute to the ongoing process of improving the software they use --results in much more useful, well-designed, robust creations. ...
• Though perhaps a less epic position than Stallman's transcendentalism, it's nevertheless revolutionary in the software business. Historically, source code is the jewel in the crown of intellectual property, guarded at any cost. Source code theft has been at the center of any number of high-profile Silicon Valley litigations. The newfangled notion of allowing customers -- and competition -- free access to source is, to many software industrialists, more than a little threatening. ...
• But the Open Source Initiative has staked its reputation on this proposition. In his extended essay The Cathedral and The Bazaar, Eric Raymond makes a compelling case that this continued liberation of users will precipitate a healthy decentralization of the software business. He asserts that giving users -- whether they're customers or otherwise interested parties -- access to source code will create a new world of distributed productivity and greatly expanded opportunity, especially for smaller software developers. ...

• SOFTWARE.
• OPEN SOURCE.
• April 15, 2004 VIEWPOINT VIEWPOINT:Can Open-Source Software Survive an Audit? .
• The open-source community argues that with thousands of eyes looking at the code, the code is much more robust and the security of the resulting products is near absolute. But any CIO or CFO who hasn't heard that this is the method of the open-source community -- and who will be going through an IT audit -- will probably be reaching for the heart-attack pills about now. ...
• In case you live on the moon, what happened last week was that a small amount of Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) source code was leaked to the Web. ...
• Microsoft eventually confirmed the leak, but that hasn't stopped the barrage of commentary from security experts, journalists, analysts and, amazingly enough, the open-source community, which waxed eloquent on why the exposure of Microsoft code to the Web was a disaster for the company. ...
• presidential primaries on the party in office, a source-code leak generates a huge amount of discussion about why source code on the Internet is a bad thing. And because the origin of these negative comments is largely the open-source community -- or folks who appear aligned with the open-source community -- the source-code leak is having the interesting side effect of causing people to question the security of open source in general. ...
• Remember that the open-source community uses the thousands-of-monkeys method to ensure security. ...
• The open-source community argues that with thousands of eyes looking at the code, the code is much more robust and the security of the resulting products is near absolute. Any CIO or CFO who hasn't heard that this is the method of the open-source community will probably be reaching for the heart-attack pills about now. ...
• The open-source advocates have been able to maintain the thousand-monkey argument largely because the opinion was widely held that open-source software benefits from lots of volunteers and is therefore more secure than proprietary closed-source software. ... I've been getting e-mail from CIOs that indicates they are increasingly becoming aware that open-source software might not pass any security audits designed to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley. ...
• However, the increased awareness this issue has generated should cause some of the teams to reassess their adoption of open-source software. The reason this idea came up -- outside of the fact that some of Microsoft's source code made it onto the Internet last week -- is that I had lunch with a friend of mine who is in the executive search business. ...

• Open Source better than My Source? .
• Yes, a Microsoft junkie can indeed be pro-open source. ...
• So what is open source getting us? Seems like everyone is still suffering from "not built here" syndrome and building there own. But instead of hiding out in their cubicle, they post the project on SourceForge and claim it's open source. Isn't the point of open source to build on each other's work? Are we really going to unseed Microsoft by working on 1000 different projects with 10 people each? .
• Open-Source a Different Beast .
• o article "Managing Open-Source" points out that open-source software follows some different rules than traditional shrink-wrapped applications. For example, the article points out that you should not use open-source just because it is cool, and development on open-source applications never really ends. And while we tend to think of open-source software as free, there are costs that must be considered, such as training.
• Microsoft warns of open source threat: "To the extent the open-source model gains increasing market acceptance, sales of the company's products may decline, the company may have to reduce the prices it charges for its products, and revenues and operating margins may consequently decline," Microsoft said in a filing last week with the Securities and Exchange Commission. So Microsoft is starting to feel the heat from the open source movement. ...
• But I don't understand why so many people think that the response to the threat from open source is for MS to go open source. The pressure from the open-source movement is not just financial, as the availability of open-source software puts pressure on Microsoft to open up the code that underlies its own products. Not everyone wants/needs open source. Just because it is gaining in popularity doesn't mean that closed software's days are numbered. Isn't it good to have a choice? Won't that serve the widest possible audience? I think it's a little early for MS to start following the "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" theory when it comes to open source.

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• Governments around the world have found a new rallying cry--"Software libre!"--and Microsoft is working overtime to quell it. ...
• A recent global wave of legislation is compelling government agencies, and in some cases government-owned companies, to use open-source or free software unless proprietary software is the only feasible option. ...
• Open-source and free software represent a budget-priced alternative to Microsoft's Windows operating system and applications that can cost thousands of dollars a month to license. In addition, access to underlying source code means governments and businesses can fix problems or modify software to work more effectively. ...
• But behind the obvious reasons for the move to open-source and free software are more subtle issues. One of the overriding drivers behind legislation, experts said, appears to be a desire to break free of the United States' lock on the global software market. ...
• Laws requiring the use of free or open-source software give governments "free rein to do what they want, how they want and when they want it," said IDC analyst Dan Kusnetzky. ...
• 8 billion on software in 2000. In Brazil, governments spent a mere $200 million the same year, an indication of how little the country has to spend on software and why free or low-priced software holds such powerful appeal. ...
• Proponents of the legislation use the term "software libre" to describe software that is not only free of licensing fees but whose development is not controlled by a single company. ...
• Theoretically, that single company could be any one of a number of software providers. In reality, most of the legislation in Europe, Asia and Latin America is specifically targeted at gaining freedom from Microsoft and its perceived lock on the commercial software business. ...
• In a motion passed by the city government of Florence, Italy, in June, legislators warned that continued use of proprietary software was leading to "the computer science subjection of the Italian state to Microsoft. ...
• Microsoft has matched or exceeded this level of rhetoric with its comments on open-source software, characterizing it variously as "a cancer," "an intellectual property destroyer" and--appropriately enough in the context of the global wave of open-source-only law--"un-American. ...
• Let the government look at all the options and then make a decision, so they can say, 'We may have to pay for this software, but it's the best solution for our specific needs. ...

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•   Reasons For Open Source .
• (990 total words in this text)  (402 Reads)    Reasons For Open SourceIntroduction .
• I supports and encourage the open source model of software development. The open source model has many advantages over closed source alternatives, such as improved security, fewer bugs, lower cost of ownership, use of open standards for file formats and network protocols, and the freedom of not being held to the whim of a software vendor. The business advantages of open source can be found at the Open Source Initiative website. ...
• CodeForge Software Licenses .
• Although I do support the open source model of development, I believe that the choice of license for software I develop under contract is up to the individual company. By default, my license provides you with a compiled "ready to run" version of the software I develop, as well as a copy of the source code. If the open source model does not fit your business needs, I can tailor the software license to suit your needs. ...
• Open Source Explained .
• There are 2 parts to software. The first part is the code that describes how the software should function. This is called source code, and is typically stored in a form that is meaningful to humans. The second part is the machine code used by computer processors to run the software. ...
• Traditionally, only the machine code version of software. ... When you buy a copy of Microsoft Office, you only get the binary version of the software. This is advantageous to software companies as it allows them to make money while protecting their source code. This has the significant disadvantages to the customer as it produces code with more bugs and security holes, proprietory file formats and network protocols, more expensive software, and no ability to modify the programs to better suit the customers needs. ...

• OpenCores has upgraded its web site look&feel and added new features that will continue to prove commitment to provide quality open source cores. ...
• Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 07:54:32 +0200 Subject: Subject: oc 8255 PPI source code > > > I. ...
• 8051 and 6805 verilog source code available for free download by Jerry D. ...
• EETIMES & EEDesign feature Open-Source Top Story for Handasa Arabia Organization by Mohamed A. ...
• EETimes and EEdesign have both featured their TOP STORY for Open Source Engineering Systems' Solutions provided by the activites of the Handasa Arabia Organization. ...
• Handasa Arabia organization is a community of volunteer engineers worldwide that addresses the design of Open Source engineering systems' solutions. ...
• Open hardware design trend.

•   Home > Products & Services > Software > Operating Systems > Linux from Sun   Product Home.
• Sun is committed to offering its Software products both on Solaris and Linux. ...
• Sun is one of the largest contributors of intellectual property to the open source community. Sun is also a member of the Free Standards Group (Linux Standards organization), Open Source Development Lab (OSDL), and a Sun employee is co-chairing the Linux internationalization effort (Li18nux).

• Overleg:Open-source software.
• (Doorverwezen vanaf Overleg:Open-sourcesoftware) .

• It is probably the best known example of free software and of open-source development. ...
• The term "Linux" is also used for whole Linux distributions, which typically bundle large quantities of software along with the operating system, such as web servers, programming languages, databases, desktop environments like GNOME and KDE and office suites like OpenOffice. ...
• These traits also serve as evidence of the utility of the open-source development model. ...
• The essay The Cathedral and the Bazaar discusses the development model of the Linux kernel and similar software. ...
• The history of Linux-based operating systems is closely tied to that of the GNU project, a prominent free-software project led by Richard Stallman. The GNU project was begun in 1983 to develop a complete Unix-like operating system — compilers, application programs, development utilities and so on — composed entirely of free software. ...
• The Linux trademark (SN: 1916230) is owned by Linus Torvalds, registered for "Computer operating system software to facilitate computer use and operation. ...
• There are many Linux distributions (distros), assembled by individuals, corporations and other organizations, and each may include any number of additional system software and application programs, as well as a program to install the whole system on a new computer. ...
• The core of each distribution includes the Linux kernel, various software packages from the GNU project and elsewhere, including a shell and utilities such as libraries, compilers and editors. ...
• Most distributions include a tremendous quantity of additional software. See List of open-source software packages. ...
• Linux is the cornerstone of the LAMP server-software combination (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP/Python) that has achieved widespread popularity among web developers. ...
• Correspondingly, a number of graphical software packages are becoming available for Linux that offer much of the functionality of common commercial programs available on the other desktop operating systems, although the latter are still much greater in breadth and quantity. ...
• However, there have been criticisms, even from Linux supporters, that Linux and other free software projects do not go far enough in terms of ensuring usability. ...
• Additionally, users will often have to switch application software as well, and equivalents of some programs may not be available (or there may be less selection, e. ...
• Relevantive, a Berlin-based company specializing in consulting companies on the usability of software and Web services, concluded in 2003 that the usability of Linux for a set of specific destop-related tasks was "nearly equal to Windows XP. ...

• (Reindirizzamento da Open Source) .
• L'Opensource (dall'inglese, sorgente aperto) è un tipo di licenza per software, per il quale il codice sorgente di un'applicazione è lasciato alla disponibilità di eventuali sviluppatori, così che con la collaborazione (in genere libera e spontanea) il prodotto finale possa raggiungere una complessità maggiore di quanto potrebbe ottenere un singolo gruppo di programmazione. L'open source ha ovviamente tratto grande beneficio da internet, e spesso si lega a principi ideali di gratuità. Vedi anche: licenza opensource, Open Source Definition e Differenza tra Software Libero e Open Source .
• 1 Storia dell'Open Source.
• 1 La genesi del software condiviso.
• 2 La nascita del software proprietario.
• 3 Gli anni '80: STALLMAN, la Free Software Foundation e l'innovazione dei PC.
• 4 Gli anni '90: Internet, Linux e la Open Source Definition.
• Storia dell'Open Source .
• La genesi del software condiviso .
• Le origine di quello che solo da pochi anni viene chiamato Open Source, risalgono agli albori dell'informatica, o meglio ai tempi nei quali per la prima volta fu possibile ed aveva una sua utilità condividere il codice tra persone senza che esistesse alcun legame contrattuale tra di loro. ...
• Inoltre, fino a tutti gli anni 1970, anche se in misura decrescente, la componente principale e costosa di un computer era l'hardware, il quale era comunque inutile in assenza di software. Da ciò la scelta dei produttori di hardware di vendere il loro prodotto accompagnato da più software possibile e di facilitarne la diffusione, fenomeno che rendeva più utili le loro macchine e dunque più concorrenziali. Il software, tra l'altro, non poteva avvantaggiare la concorrenza in quanto funzionava solo su un preciso tipo di computer e non su altri, neanche dello stesso produttore. ...
• La nascita del software proprietario .

• Open Notes Picture Database - Lotus Domino based Picture Gallery with Lotus Notes Client Frontend .
• Please note that all open source projects must be open - if a design is hidden it cannot be called open source. We hope everyone echoes the same sentiment and uses OpenNTF as the site to go to for Notes open source applications.
• 04/05/2004 - enable authenticated webusers to edit pictures subject (Open Notes Picture Database) 03/29/2004 - Upload all existing files (Knowledge World) 03/25/2004 - File Cabinet Creation (ddcImporter) 03/23/2004 - Build UI (ACLHelp) 03/21/2004 - enhance db to support. ... mpg files as well as pictures (Open Notes Picture Database) 03/10/2004 - Quality Control (OpenWHAM) 03/10/2004 - PDA/Mobile client development (OpenWHAM).
• Project Idea: Open Analyzer - 03/08/2004 .

• The Fink project wants to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and Mac OS X. We modify Unix software so that it compiles and runs on Mac OS X ("port" it) and make it available for download as a coherent distribution. ... You can choose whether you want to download precompiled binary packages or build everything from source. ...
• 3), are now available for both source and binary users. ...
• These releases includes source and binary packages as well as binary installers. ...

• Red Hat Applications: Extend the benefits of open source.
• Complete range of open source services.
• Wide Open Magazine The Red Hat Magazine for Open Source Professionals and Advocates.
• Education Software, tools, services, and special pricing for teachers, students and institutions.

• Free software.
• (Redirected from Four Freedoms (software)) .
• The term free software is used in essentially two different ways: .
• Software that can be copied, used, studied, modified, distributed, etc. ...
• Software which may be copied and used without payment, also referred to as freeware (or gratis software). ...
• "Free software" more commonly refers to the first sense, at least among software developers. ...
• These definitions may conflict and a piece of software that is free in the first sense may not be free in the second, and vice versa. ...
• Free software of the "free speech" type is sometimes called "software libre", from the French "logiciel libre" and the Spanish "software libre". ... Free software of the other type is called "gratis", which translates to the "free" of "free beer". ...
• 2 Comparison with Open Source software.
• Developers in the 1970s already shared their software in conformity with the principles of free software. ... In 1983, Richard Stallman started working on the GNU project, founding the Free Software Foundation (FSF). ...
• He introduced the concepts of "free software" and "copyleft", which he specifically devised to give users freedom and to restraint the possibilities for privatization. ...
• The FSF has produced a specific free software definition. Software is "free" in this sense if it grants: .
• In order to easily exercise freedom #2, one requires access to the program's source code. ...

• Open source home.
• HP Labs software.
• Handhelds and open source.
• Test-drive open source.
• open source organizations.
• Free Software Foundation.
• Open Source Software Institute.
• Open Source Development Labs (OSDL).
• open source organizations.
• HP and open source.
• HP is hosting a number of open source software projects that run on various HP systems. These projects are hosted using SourceForge, the online open source repository. ...
• Visit the open source project page for the complete list.
• This month's top 10 HP-sponsored open source projects.
• Open Source DB Benchmark.
• Open source news and project highlights.

• Graphviz - open source graph drawing software.
• FAQ, open source license.
• open bug list : read currently open bugs.

• The terms wiki (pronounced "weekee", rhymes with tiki, /wiki/ in SAMPA) and WikiWiki are used to identify either a specific type of hypertext document collection or the collaborative software used to create it. ...
• Generally, there is no prior review before modifications are accepted, and most wikis are open to the general public or at least to all persons who also have access to the wiki server. ...
• In these cases, users who do not have the necessary plugin can only edit the page in its HTML source. ...
• Thus, while wikis are very open, they also provide various means to verify the validity of recent additions to the body of pages. ...
• This process is more or less streamlined, depending on the wiki software that is used. ...
• The majority of wiki engines are open source software; large projects like TWiki and the Wikipedia software are developed collaboratively. ...
• It is hard to determine which wiki engines are the most popular, although the leading candidates would probably be the very simple to set up UseMod wiki, TWiki, MoinMoin and the Wikipedia software. See Wiki software for a list of wiki engines. ...
• Wiki software originated in the design pattern community for writing pattern languages. ...
• It was originally based on the UseMod software, but later switched to its own open source codebase which has now been adopted by many other wikis. ...
• nu, a Swedish language knowledge base, running the UseMod software. ...
• Asian Open Source Centre .
• Grubstreet 6 - the Open Community Guide to London .
• Fox Wiki 7 One of the oldest Wikis, written in and all about Visual FoxPro and software engineering issues in general .
• Circus Wiki - Open book circus wiki .
• Presentation at Open Cultures conference, June 5 - 6, Vienna. ...

• The Commercial Software Model.
• And in part this has focused on whether IP protection as we have known it – whether for music, software, or other products – should continue to be a fundamental engine of economic growth.
• We should examine the progress of the Internet to understand the landscape of the software industry today and how intellectual property fits into that landscape.
• Innovation investment and a significant community of software developers will need to share the excitement for bringing about the next generation of the Web. ...
• The business model I am speaking of for Phase 3 is the Commercial Software Model. ...
• Licensing Model: provides product and source access without jeopardizing the intellectual property rights of those who create or use the software .
• Microsoft has fostered the world’s largest community of software developers for well over a decade. ... The element of the commercial software model for Phase 3 that we need to improve is that of our licensing model. Microsoft is expanding its licensing model to include our "Shared Source Philosophy. ...
• Shared Source is a balanced approach that allows us to share source code with customers and partners while maintaining the intellectual property needed to support a strong software business. Shared Source represents a framework of business value, technical innovation and licensing terms. It covers a spectrum of accessibility that is manifest in the variety of source licensing programs offered by Microsoft. The principles of the Shared Source Philosophy are:.
• Helping customers and partners to be successful through source access programs .
• Building the development community and offering them the tools to produce great software .
• Protecting software intellectual property based on the firm belief that software offers value as the basis of a successful business.

• Open source projects.
• developerWorks hosts a variety of open source projects, all under open source licenses approved by the Open Source Initiative. ...
• Open source projects:.
• Model-driven development with the Eclipse Modeling Framework, Part 1: EMF is an open source framework for developing model-driven applications. ...
• Linux on xSeries: Software Evaluation Kit (now on DVD).
• Open source training: IBM Education.
• Open source books.
• IBM Software Development Platform.
• Developer Bookstore: Open source computing books.

• The Business of Open-Source Software.
• Commercial software companies face many challenges in growing their business in today's fast-moving and competitive industry environment. Recently many people have proposed the use of an open-source development model as one possible way to address those challenges. This document investigates the business of commercial open-source software, including why a company might adopt an open-source model, how open-source licensing works, what business models might be usable for commercial open-source products, what special considerations apply to commercial products released as open source, and how various objections relating to open source might be answered. The target audience is commercial software and hardware companies and individual software developers considering some sort of open-source strategy or just curious about how such a strategy might work. ...
• If your company is in the software business either directly (as an independent software vendor or ISV) or indirectly (for example, you produce software as a key component of other goods or services) then it's likely that you face several challenges in growing your business. ...
• Second, I believe that your company has at least one possible strategy available that may help address all these issues together -- turning some (or in exceptional cases even all) of your software products into "open-source" products, i. ... , products for which you make the source code freely available under liberal licensing terms and with no licensing fees, so that others may take that software, make changes to it, and use or distribute the resulting modified versions as they see fit. ...
• You've no doubt read about Netscape's recent release of the source code for Netscape Communicator; you may also have heard about earlier open-source projects like the Linux operating system kernel and read papers like Eric Raymond's "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" that make a case for open-source development within an extended developer community as a way to create better software. In this paper I discuss why and how a commercial company might build a business or extend an existing business through the creation and distribution of open-source software -- in other words, how to "set up shop" in the "bazaar. ...
• " I then explore the business proposition for open source software, starting from the proposition that your company is in business to provide customers with something of value and to receive money (or other things of value) in return. Moving to open source for a product can potentially provide better value to your customers, including in particular the ability for your customers or third parties to improve that product through bug fixes and product enhancements. ...
• However the real key to building a business on open-source software is going beyond that to provide greater value to your customers than your competitors can, and ultimately turning that increased value into increased revenue and profits for your company. In the traditional software business model your company provides all (or almost all) of the value to customers, and you realize revenues and profits in return for that value through traditional software license fees. In an open-source business model much of the value provided to customers will not be provided solely by you, but rather by other developers who are attracted to working on your open-source products and who will thus help augment your resources as opposed to your competitors'. These "outside" developers may be motivated by the prospect of working with software that solves important problems for them and for others, by the possibility of future gain providing related services and creating related products, by the opportunity to increase their own personal knowledge, or by the ego satisfaction of building an enhanced reputation among their peers. ...

• The Luxury of Ignorance: An Open-Source Horror Story.
• Home Page What's New Site Map Software Projects HOWTOs Essays Personal Weblog Freedom! Firearms! .
• I'm going to anatomize this failure in detail, because there are lessons here that other open-source projects would do well to heed. The point of this essay is not, therefore, just to beat up on the CUPS people — it's also to beat up on every other open-source designer who does equally thoughtless things under the fond delusion that a slick-looking UI is a well-designed UI. ...
• Instead, Aunt Tillie is already getting the idea that this software was written by geeks without clue.
• This kind of fecklessness is endemic in open-source land. And it's what's keeping Microsoft in business — because by Goddess, they may write crappy insecure overpriced shoddy software, but on this one issue their half-assed semi-competent best is an order of magnitude better than we usually manage.
• Rule 1 of writing software for nontechnical users is this: if they have to read documentation to use it you designed it wrong. The interface of the software should be all the documentation the user needs. ...
• What does my software look like to a non-technical user who has never seen it before? .
• ) For cups, the answer is "you can duplicate it easily, but it's a *secret*"! Every configuration should be built and recompiled from the source tarball! What are you, a n00b? .

• Tiny StrongARM SBC combines open source software AND hardware .
• Aleph One is shipping a one-ounce, one-watt, 206MHz StrongARM-based single-board computer (SBC) that comes pre-installed with embedded Linux and features an "open source" hardware design. ...
• "This is an example of the application of Open Source principles to hardware, not just software," according to Aleph One.
• Open hardware for open software.
• Tiny "open hardware" SBC now available commercially.

• Once a toy for geeks, open source is slowly but surely filtering into the enterprise and transforming the way software is designed, sold and supported. And any CIO without an open-source strategy in 2003 will be paying too much for IT in 2004. ...
• The open-source movement is helping turn significant chunks of the IT infrastructure into commodities by offering free alternatives to proprietary software. The promise of the past several years has begun to materialize as one by one the hurdles to open-source adoption have dropped away. Major enterprises are running mission-critical functions on open-source IT. ... To avoid getting stung, CIOs should pursue as least some components of this 2003 open-source agenda: Get your feet wet with relatively low-risk Internet applications. ...
• CIO Research: Confidence in Open Source Growing.
• Open source will dominate as the Web server application platform and server operating system in five years — that's what the majority of companies surveyed by CIO said. ...
• CIO Research: Open Source Gains Momentum.
• This survey from 2002 shows that open source is definitely on the radar screen. ...
• Is Your Company Ready for the Open (Source) Road?.
• This excerpt from the book The Business and Economics of Linux and Open Source might be a good starting place to soothe the anxious minds of your non-technology colleagues. ...
• The Open Source (Non-) Debate.
• When the president of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution asserted that open source is a security disaster waiting to happen,, he had no idea what he was getting in to. ...
• 0 scheme, open source is on CIOs' radar screens. ...
• If open source saves you money, push the button .

• 3 and offers the most advanced Linux features currently available -- in terms of technology as well as the most up-to-date software. ...
• Software.
• Network Management Tools, Programming Tools, Internet & Communication Applications, Software Suites, Operating Systems, more.
• Linux/Open Source.
• ZDNet Australia: Aust IT Decision-Makers Don't Understand Open Source: Report.
• :Venezuela's Government Shifts to Open Source Software Venezuela's Government Shifts to Open Source Software.
• According to government sources in Venezuela, the South American nation has announced an official policy that exclusively calls for the use of open source software in that government. ...
• The announcement, made on Wednesday, stated that from now on, all software developed for the government must be licenced under the GPL. ... Felipe Pérez-Martí, Planning and Development Minister: "Open source whenever possible, propietary software only when necesary. ...
• The policy also states that the government will openly combat software piracy by purging all unlicensed copies of software from its offices. ...
• Pérez-Martí has been described by various South American media outlets as an economist who has been interested in open source for quite some time. ...
• At the LinuxWeek 2000 conference, Pérez-Martí presented a paper about free software sustainability entitled: "On Altruism, Efficiency and Public Goods, Application: GNU/Linux Environment" .
• "This of course, requires additional considerations that are being carefully written by Pérez-Martí's advisors in terms of the use of a freely available standard format to exchange information, ease of transformation of this information without needing propietary software, and the need to make free (as in GPL-compatible) all software funded by the Government. ...
• According to Pérez-Martí, the government and the people of Venezeula were increasingly concerned that over 75 percent of the funds for software licenses went to foreign nations, 20 percent to foreign support agencies, and only 5 percent to Venezuelan programmers. ...
• Pérez-Martí indicated that they wish to implement this new policy so that now Venezulan programmers will be handling most of the government's software needs, though keeping a large amount of government funds within the nation itself. ...
• pe: Peruvian Congressman's Open Letter to Microsoft(May 07, 2002) .

• Open Source.
• Open Source.
• It is recognized as an award winning source for information technology reference, methodology, and technical content focused on IT departmental management, technology support, and project leadership. ...

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