Can the open source community beat software patenters?

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NOSI, the Nonprofit Open Source
Initiative, announces the release of its
new guide "Choosing and Using Open
Source Software: A Primer for
Nonprofits."

NOSI, the Nonprofit Open Source
Initiative, announces the release of its
new guide "Choosing and Using Open
Source Software: A Primer for
Nonprofits." 02/17/2004 11:57 PM
As per a recent post, I love to see (and hope to one day do it myself) Open Source Software in Non-Profits. Seems http://www.nosi.net found my post: http://thelostolive.net/tlo/comments.php?id=1786_0_1_0_C And commented the release of its new guide "Choosing and Using Open Source Software: A Primer for Nonprofits." And now in their own words: ___snip____ -- From: Katrin Verclas Email: steering (a) nosi.net Hi, Kevin - NOSI actually just released a new...

Microsoft releases source code to open
source community

Microsoft releases source code to open
source community 05/05/2004 04:06 AM
About a month ago, Microsoft posted some of its source code to SourceForge. SourceForge is a, if not the, major distribution point for open source software. Microsoft's code was put there under the terms of the Common Public License, which allows modification, addition, redistribution - in short, it allows most of the rights and privileges that we associate with open source software.

Microsoft Trying Soft Sell To Beat Open
Source (TechWeb)

Microsoft Trying Soft Sell To Beat Open
Source (TechWeb) 04/10/2004 03:41 AM
TechWeb - Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer actually praised open source this week, and the company released software under an open source license. That's a long-way from recent fire-breathing attacks.

Apple And The Open Source Community

Apple And The Open Source Community 07/04/2004 06:56 PM

Open Source Community Building

Open Source Community Building 03/24/2005 05:27 AM
Open Source Community Building by Matthias Stürmer
http://opensource. mit.edu/papers/sturmer.pdf

Abstract
Building an active and helpful community around an open source project is a complex task for its leaders. Therefore investigations in this work are intended to define the optimum starting position of an open source project and to identify recommendable promoting actions by project leaders to enlarge community size in a healthy way. For this paper eight interviews with committed representatives of successful open source projects have led to over 12 hours of conversation about community building. Analysing the statements of these experienced community members exposed helpful activities that led to the presently prospering communities of their projects. Summarizing the conclusions of this qualitative research a table with conditions for successful open source project initialisation and a subject-level promotion matrix of community building could be created. They include suggestions o­n how to start a new open source project and how to improve and increase the community of an already advanced open source project.

What's Wrong with the Open Source
Community?

What's Wrong with the Open Source
Community? 12/02/2003 12:27 AM
Slashdot Dec 1 2003 1:09PM ET

Free/Open Source research Community

Free/Open Source research Community 12/09/2003 01:27 PM
Free/Open Source Research Community
http://opensource.mit.edu/h ome.html

Free/open source software (F/OSS) is software for which the human-readable source code is made available to the user of the software, who can then modify the code in order to fit the software to the user’s needs. The source code is the set of written instructions that define a program in its original form, and when it’s made fully accessible programmers can read it, modify it, and redistribute it, thereby improving and adapting the software. In this manner the software evolves at a rate unmatched by traditional proprietary software. For many years free/open source software has been building momentum. Beginning amidst the technical cultures that produced the Internet and World Wide Web, it is now causing quite a stir in the commercial world as large software corporations are finding themselves competing against commercially available open source software.

This new demand for free and open source software has piqued interest among scholars in disciplines ranging from sociology to economics to social psychology, and has raised questions in fields of application ranging from innovation processes to strategic management. As an aid to these scholars, they offer the Free / Open Source Research Community. By having visitors contribute to our research databases, they hope to establish a community of information exchange that will lead to a greater understanding of open source and it's applications.

In the spirit of free and open source software (F/OSS), they are attempting to establish a community in which information will be freely exchanged, so that others may further the understanding of open source and its implications outside the realm of software development. They invite researchers to post their papers on open source and free software here, and to add themselves to the research directory, so that their community can become steadily larger and more comprehensive.

More On The Corporate Gated Open Source
Community

More On The Corporate Gated Open Source
Community 04/29/2004 11:56 AM
Earlier this month we joked about how the new Avalanche CIO co-op was really open source with a $30,000 gate. It appears that the group doesn't see it as a joke. That's exactly how they describe themselves. The interview with one of the founders also raises some interesting points about how the group is going to avoid a SCO-IBM situation where some of the software that goes into the co-op is accused of having intellectual property violations. The guy from the co-op sort of brushes that off by saying they have a top intellectual property law firm who will review all submissions to make sure they're safe. Considering the number of software patents showing up these days on all sorts of minor software processes, and the fact that I'd put IBM's lawyers up against any top IP law firm any day and they certainly didn't expect SCO to go on this bizarre run, I doubt that's much real protection. If anything, this may end up opening up the companies in the co-op to more (pointless, of course) patent lawsuits by revealing their internal software. For instance, the first piece of software in the co-op was an internal application from Best Buy. Before this, no one outside of Best Buy really knew what it did, since it was all internal. Thus, there was almost no risk of being accused of patent infringment. However, by opening it up (admittedly to just a few companies right now) they risk someone who has patents on some tiny process used in their software to come back and sue them and any of the other companies in the co-op who downloads it. Maybe after a few of these types of lawsuits the companies involved in the co-op will become a bit more pro-active in fighting against bad software patents.

Attacks puzzle open-source community

Attacks puzzle open-source community 02/13/2004 06:56 AM
ZDNet UK Feb 13 2004 10:52AM GMT

Openwave Courts Open Source Community

Openwave Courts Open Source Community 05/31/2002 10:12 AM

Google reaches out to open-source
community

Google reaches out to open-source
community 03/19/2005 03:28 AM
The site is aimed at providing the open-source community with software tools developed and used internally by Google, contributing code that external developers might find useful.

Red Hat building open source community
in India

Red Hat building open source community
in India 01/24/2004 12:09 AM
BANGALORE, INDIA - Linux vendor Red Hat is investing in India to build an open source community in the country, with educational institutions likely to be a key focus, according to the company's top executive.

Red Hat to build open-source community
in India

Red Hat to build open-source community
in India 01/26/2004 10:18 AM
Computer Weekly Jan 26 2004 2:08PM GMT

Community News: MoviePartners' Open
Source Move

Community News: MoviePartners' Open
Source Move 05/26/2004 07:31 AM
Via a link from PHP Magazine today, there is a special note off the newswire about the MoviePartners leveraging open source technologies to launch two new websites, one of which is the "oldest and largest" screenwriting communities still in operation.

Why Open-Source Community Objects to MS
Spam Plans

Why Open-Source Community Objects to MS
Spam Plans 09/17/2004 07:45 PM
The broadness of Microsoft's recently revealed e-mail authenication patent confirms open-source concerns with the company's anti-spam efforts using Sender ID.

vnunet: Open Source Community Preaches
Coexistence

vnunet: Open Source Community Preaches
Coexistence 03/14/2005 05:29 PM
"Open source and commercial applications will coexist in peace, Marten Mickos, chief executive at MySQL, said in a keynote presentation at LinuxWorld, adding that open source will help the IT industry to move more quickly into new markets..."

IBM Tips Derby to Open-Source Community
(NewsFactor)

IBM Tips Derby to Open-Source Community
(NewsFactor) 08/03/2004 06:10 PM
NewsFactor - IBM (NYSE: IBM) is providing its Cloudscape relational database software to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), an open-source organization, hoping to spur innovation for Java applications for embedded databases.

Kernel Changes Draw Concern from
Open-Source Community

Kernel Changes Draw Concern from
Open-Source Community 04/17/2005 11:09 AM
The Linux 2.6 kernel is getting fatter, some contend; others say new features are optional and that their use is at the discretion of organizations compiling their builds of the kernel.

Fedora Directory Server Now Available To
The Open Source Community

Fedora Directory Server Now Available To
The Open Source Community 06/05/2005 11:28 PM

BEA Builds Beehive for Open-Source
Community (NewsFactor)

BEA Builds Beehive for Open-Source
Community (NewsFactor) 05/20/2004 03:46 PM
NewsFactor - BEA Systems (Nasdaq: BEAS) is delivering software code for its WebLogic framework, with an eye to drawing more developers to the platform and speeding the creation of more Java-based enterprise applications.

Notebook: Open-Source Community Upbeat
at LinuxWorld

Notebook: Open-Source Community Upbeat
at LinuxWorld 08/03/2004 11:07 PM
Attendees are finding plenty to appreciate at this week's LinuxWorld show in San Francisco, including new products, desktop Linux and guys in kilts.

Open-Source Community Eager for
Cloudscape Code

Open-Source Community Eager for
Cloudscape Code 08/05/2004 07:54 PM
IBM's move to open-source its Java database "permits applications to count on the functionality of a real database from the get-go," says a member of the Apache Software Foundation.

IBM Donates Speech Technology to Open
Source Community

IBM Donates Speech Technology to Open
Source Community 09/13/2004 10:28 PM
IBM has contributed speech technology to the Apache Software Foundation. By releasing its source code IBM hopes to bring a quick end to battles over competing, proprietary standards; solidifying the industry behind VoiceXML.

Interview: Sudhir Gandotra on what
India's open source community needs

Interview: Sudhir Gandotra on what
India's open source community needs 04/07/2005 01:23 PM
Sudhir Gandotra is an open source marketeer par excellence. He is best known for Kalculate, an accounting package for the Linux desktop, but Gandotra has been providing support for Linux desktops for almost a decade. In this interview he talks of various open source adoption barriers that exist in India, his experience marketing a product that mandates the use of a non-standard operating system, and the reasons behind his Linux desktop for India.

Virtual Community Makes Open Source
Encyclopedia Succeed

Virtual Community Makes Open Source
Encyclopedia Succeed 12/18/2003 01:06 PM
Virtual Community Makes Open Source Encyclopedia Succeed
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_12/ciffolilli/index.html

An open source encyclopedia seems to defy all logic. Anyone can contribute -- and anyone can change, deface or erase the information it contains. Yet Wikipedia is successful for several reasons. First, it's being constructed by a purpose-built virtual community, whose members share the same goals and passions. Another factor is the low cost associated with IT and virtual communities. In a way, technology has virtually eliminated transaction costs for editing and updating information. This not only stimulates development of the community and the project, it provides a full exploitation of massive collaboration economies. Another secret of Wikipedia's success is its "creative construction" of information, rather than a "creative destruction" of it. Initially, some observers expected an endless war among reliable contributions, as well as graffiti attacks that would deface and delay the development of the Web site. In reality, that hasn't happened. Every change made to every article is stored; unapproved modifications can be undone with a single click. Thus, hackers and graffiti artists waste more of their time and effort trying to litter a page than administrators require to correct it. Through this mechanism of editing and undoing meaningless changes or graffiti, an evolutionary process is fostered. Among other results, that means only the best contributions survive.

CA issues million dollar challenge to
open source community

CA issues million dollar challenge to
open source community 08/07/2004 08:41 AM

Free/Open Source Research Community
Online Papers

Free/Open Source Research Community
Online Papers 10/28/2003 11:08 PM
Free/Open Source Research Community Online Papers
http://opensource.m it.edu/online_papers.php

Free/open source software (F/OSS) is software for which the human-readable source code is made available to the user of the software, who can then modify the code in order to fit the software to the user’s needs. The source code is the set of written instructions that define a program in its original form, and when it’s made fully accessible programmers can read it, modify it, and redistribute it, thereby improving and adapting the software. In this manner the software evolves at a rate unmatched by traditional proprietary software.

For many years free/open source software has been building momentum. Beginning amidst the technical cultures that produced the Internet and World Wide Web, it is now causing quite a stir in the commercial world as large software corporations are finding themselves competing against commercially available open source software.
information. This new demand for free and open source software has piqued interest among scholars in disciplines ranging from sociology to economics to social psychology, and has raised questions in fields of application ranging from innovation processes to strategic management. The online papers archives represents the latest thinking and current happenings.

Kernel Changes Draw Concern from
Open-Source Community (Ziff Davis)

Kernel Changes Draw Concern from
Open-Source Community (Ziff Davis) 04/17/2005 02:41 PM
Ziff Davis - The Linux 2.6 kernel is getting fatter, some contend; others say new features are optional and that their use is at the discretion of organizations compiling their builds of the kernel.

AMD Joins Open Source Development Labs
and Recognizes Community Support for
AMD64

AMD Joins Open Source Development Labs
and Recognizes Community Support for
AMD64 04/22/2004 02:29 AM

Sun offloads four mostly useless Java
projects to the open source community
including Looking Glass and Java3D.

Sun offloads four mostly useless Java
projects to the open source community
including Looking Glass and Java3D. 06/28/2004 07:54 PM
Sun offloads four mostly useless Java projects to the open source community including Looking Glass and Java3D. (See lip service yesterday.)

W3C Open Source Software

W3C Open Source Software 08/06/2004 06:17 AM
W3C Open Source Software
http://www.w3.org/Status.html

The natural complement to W3C specifications is running code. Implementation and testing is an essential part of specification development and releasing the code promotes exchange of ideas in the developer community. All W3C software is Open Source / Free Software, and GPL compatible. See the lice nse for details (and the following if you intend to contribute). Note that as this license is GPL compatible, it is possible to redistribute software based on W3C sources under a GPL license.

Usability of Open Source Software

Usability of Open Source Software 01/10/2003 12:53 PM

Explaining Open Source Software

Explaining Open Source Software 01/04/2004 02:20 PM
scubacuda writes "Mark Webbink, Red Hat's general counsel, has written an informative article explaining free and open source software. Geared towards ...

Usability and Open Source Software

Usability and Open Source Software 12/06/2002 04:59 AM

Getting Help the Free Software (and Open
Source) Way

Getting Help the Free Software (and Open
Source) Way 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
What happens when the effectiveness of your favorite search engine turns against you, when it becomes almost too effective to be useful, giving you so much information that you're not sure where to start?... Well, my overworked friend, you're in luck. Today, I'll be covering the holy grail of information gathering: asking people... In the process, I will also show you some of the better locations to begin your searches and give you a few pointers in getting the most out of your queries.

Listen to the web - via open-source
software

Listen to the web - via open-source
software 11/17/2003 05:44 AM
PublicTechnology.net Nov 17 2003 4:49AM ET

Open Source Software and Economics

Open Source Software and Economics 10/29/2003 09:19 PM

What is open source and what is free
software?

What is open source and what is free
software? 03/06/2004 01:59 AM
Whenever I mention open source software, or the Linux operating system, I can be sure of getting lots of "interesting" mail in my inbox. There's a good bit of confusion about open source software among members of the general public, journalists of the general press and even among those of us who should know better.

Open Source Spreads Beyond Software

Open Source Spreads Beyond Software 02/14/2004 09:27 AM

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