What is open source and what is free software?
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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.
Free software and Open Source
Free software and Open Source
04/10/2005 07:12 AMFree software and Open Source: The freedom Debate and Its
Consequences By Mathias Klanght
tp://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_3/klang/index.htmlAbstract:To most outsiders the ethics
of software is not something usually considered. To most proficient
computer users with a passing interest in this question the ethics of
software is recognised as one of the fundamental questions in the
digital rights area. To most of the latter, terms such as free
software, open source, and their derivatives (FLOSS, FOSS, Software
Freedom) are interchangeable. Choosing one over the other is a matter
of taste rather than politics. However, to most insiders the
question is not one of taste. There is a fundamental difference
between the two areas even if they share a similar root. Free software
is not the same as open source. The two groups differ in their
fundamental philosophical approach to software and its importance to
society as a whole. This paper examines the two groups’ differing
philosophies and explores how their actions have affected software
development, access to fundamental software infrastructure, and the
development of the concept of freedom.
Can open source software free your mind?
Can open source software free your mind?
09/13/2004 08:45 AMHow do you organize all those little notes and ideas that you have
spread out all over the place in a way that you can actually use them
and make have them make some sense? That's one of the goals of a class
of software known as mind mapping. Once the realm only of high-priced
commercial applications, there is now at least one open source option.
It's called FreeMind and it's licensed under the GPL.
The Semantics of Free Software vs. Open
Source
The Semantics of Free Software vs. Open
Source
12/28/2004 04:54 PMNew: Understanding Open Source and Free
Software Licensing
New: Understanding Open Source and Free
Software Licensing
09/22/2004 10:12 AMO'Reilly's Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing
discusses copyright, patent, and warranty issues with open source
licenses and explores how to choose among the licenses.
Open Source and Free Software,
Concepts, Controversies, and Solutions
Open Source and Free Software,
Concepts, Controversies, and Solutions
05/12/2004 09:58 AMYesterday, I had the opportunity to speak at the Open Source and Free
Software conference, held by the Knowledge Media Design Institute
at the University of Toronto.
The conference was designed to explore the legal, moral, political,
social, commercial, and technical perspectives of open source and free
software, to build a broader understanding of the movement.
I spoke on a panel entitled Education
and Public Knowledge: Open Access, Open Content. The aim of the
panel was to understand how the lessons from open source and free
software could help develop a thriving open-content ecosystem, within
the context of education.
The entire conference will be online soon -- check it out!
Advancing Economic Research on the Free
and Open Source Software Mode of
Production
Advancing Economic Research on the Free
and Open Source Software Mode of
Production
01/03/2005 06:25 AMAdvancing Economic Research on the Free and Open Source
Software Mode of Production by Dalle, J.-M., P. A. David, Rishab A.
Ghosh, & W. E. Steinmueller
http://opensourc
e.mit.edu/papers/davidetal.pdf
Abstract:
Early contributions to the academic
literature on free/libre and open source software (F/LOSS) movements
have been directed primarily at identifying the motivations that
account for the sustained and often intensive involvement of many
people in this non-contractual and unremunerated productive activity.
This issue has been particularly prominent in economists'
contributions to the literature, and it reflects a view that
widespread voluntary participation in the creation of economically
valuable goods that is to be distributed without charge constitutes a
significant behavioral anomaly. Undoubtedly, the motivations of F/LOSS
developers deserve to be studied more intensively, but not because
their behaviors are unique, or historically unprecedented. In this
essay we argue that other aspects of the "open source" phenomenon are
just as intriguing, if not more so, and possibly are also more
consequential topics for economic analysis. We describe the
re-focusing and re-direction of empirical and theoretical research in
an integrated international project (based at Stanford
University/SIEPR) that aims at better understanding a set of less
widely discussed topics: the modes of organization, governance and
performance of F/LOSS development -- viewed as a collective
distributed mode of production.. We discuss of the significance of
tackling those questions in order to assess the potentialities of the
"open source way of working" as a paradigm for a broader class of
knowledge and information-goods production, and conclude with
proposals for the trajectory of future research along that line.
ExperimentalScene Announces Version 1.5
of Its Premier Windows XP Registry Tool,
RegCompact.net, Now Released as Open
Source, Free Software (GPL)
ExperimentalScene Announces Version 1.5
of Its Premier Windows XP Registry Tool,
RegCompact.net, Now Released as Open
Source, Free Software (GPL)
03/27/2005 03:20 AMRegCompact.NET, a popular shareware utility for Windows is now free.
It enables users to speed up their PC by optimizing the data storage
of Windows XP's system registry, a critical and often sluggish part of
the system. [PRWEB Mar 27, 2005]
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 PMAs 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...
Newly Launched Patent Database Opens
Free Search Access to IBM's Open Source
Software Patent Collection
Newly Launched Patent Database Opens
Free Search Access to IBM's Open Source
Software Patent Collection
02/01/2005 09:16 PMPatentCafe's Natural Language Based OSS Patent Search Engine™
Accelerates Software Developers' Use of IBM's 500 Pledged Patents.
Freely accessible by the entire OSS community, PatentCafe's Open
Source Software Patent Search Engine adds significant value to IBM's
contribution by accelerating the integration of IBM's patented
technology into the marketplace, helping to foster worldwide
interoperability standards. [PRWEB Feb 1, 2005]
Free, Open Source OS For TI Calculators
Free, Open Source OS For TI Calculators
12/14/2003 06:18 PMFree/Open Source research Community
Free/Open Source research Community
12/09/2003 01:27 PMFree/Open Source Research Communityhttp://opensource.mit.edu/h
ome.htmlFree/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.
Free Can Mean Big Money - The Open
Source Economy
Free Can Mean Big Money - The Open
Source Economy
08/16/2004 06:26 PMBEA Offers Free Open-Source Components
BEA Offers Free Open-Source Components
05/26/2004 07:51 PMLinuxInsider.com,CA-8 minutes ago ... and open-source controls
designed to help enable developers to tap into the Web services
capabilities of the Amazon, eBay, Federal Express, Google, PayPal and
...
Free open source GIS app GRASS 6
released
Free open source GIS app GRASS 6
released
03/14/2005 04:36 PMVersion 6.0 of GRASS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System)
was released on Thursday, its Italian-led development team announced.
First developed in 1982 and under continuous revision by volunteers
since 1997, GRASS is a geographic information system (GIS) that
includes more than 350 programs and tools used to create, manage,
store and visually display various types of data. It's currently used
for spatial modeling, graphics production, map rendering and similar
tasks in such fields as geography, urban planning, hydrology,
geophysics and more.
A Free Open Source Virus Scanner
A Free Open Source Virus Scanner
06/02/2004 06:23 PM“ClamWin Antivirus Features include: Scanning Scheduler;
Automatic Virus Database Updates. ClamAV team updates Virus Databases
on a regular basis and almost immediately after a new virus/variant is
out; Standalone Virus Scanner; Context Menu Integration to Microsoft
Windows Explorer; Addin to Microsoft Outlook.”
Decoding the Free/Open Source (F/OSS)
Puzzle
Decoding the Free/Open Source (F/OSS)
Puzzle
05/13/2004 05:19 AMDecoding the "Free/Open Source (F/OSS) Puzzle" - a Survey of
Theretical and Empirical Contributions by Maria Alessandra
Rossihttp://opensource.mi
t.edu/papers/rossi.pdfAbstract:F/OSS software has been described by many as a puzzle. In the past
five years, it has stimulated the curiosity of scholars in a variety
of fields, including economics, law, psychology, anthropology and
computer science, so that the number of contributions on the subject
has increased exponentially. The purpose of this paper is to provide a
sufficiently comprehensive account of these contributions in order to
draw some general conclusions on the state of our understanding of the
phenomenon and identify directions for future research. The exercise
suggests that what is puzzling about F/OSS is not so much the fact
that people freely contribute to a good they make available to all,
but rather the complexity of its institutional structure and its
ability to organizationally evolve over time.
Best Free Open Source Cocoa Code To
Learn From?
Best Free Open Source Cocoa Code To
Learn From?
03/06/2004 02:03 AMW3C Open Source Software
W3C Open Source Software
08/06/2004 06:17 AMW3C Open Source Softwarehttp://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.
Sun announces new free support for open
source server companies
Sun announces new free support for open
source server companies
04/26/2004 08:10 PMSun Microsystems Monday announced free J2EE 1.4 technical support for
all open source app server companies, so they can make their products
square with the new specifications. Sun also released a new, freely
downloadable" J2EE 1.4 Application Verification Kit (AVK). The new AVK
tests for portability to J2EE APIs across Java-compatible application
servers and applications -- including JBoss, Apache, and other open
source servers.
Free/Open Source Research Community
Online Papers
Free/Open Source Research Community
Online Papers
10/28/2003 11:08 PMFree/Open Source Research Community Online Papershttp://opensource.m
it.edu/online_papers.phpFree/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.
Open Source Software economics
Open Source Software economics
11/01/2003 05:18 AMAs an occasional user of Linux, and someone in the software industry,
I've followed the "Open Source" movement for quite some time. To a
minority, Open Source Software (specifically GPL licensed Open Source
Software) represents an ideological and sociological movement,
something that will change the world. To the majority, it is simply a
way to get cool and useful software without going through the expense
of buying, or the hassle of pirating it.
Explaining Open Source Software
Explaining Open Source Software
01/04/2004 02:20 PMscubacuda 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 AMOpen Source Spreads Beyond Software
Open Source Spreads Beyond Software
02/14/2004 09:27 AMListen to the web - via open-source
software
Listen to the web - via open-source
software
11/17/2003 05:44 AMPublicTechnology.net Nov 17 2003 4:49AM ET
Usability of Open Source Software
Usability of Open Source Software
01/10/2003 12:53 PMOpen Source Software and Economics
Open Source Software and Economics
10/29/2003 09:19 PMWhat's going on in the open source
software world?
What's going on in the open source
software world?
04/06/2005 09:22 PMDan Farber reports from the OSBC here in SF and let's us know what
Larry Augustimn said. He's identified specific models and shown
how companies are asking their clients to pay them to convince them to
hire them.
That is so beautiful.
And watch Doc's IT Garage
for more goings on in this area. It's time to cash in and kick
the old school - out. I guess the next scene is Portland Aug. 1-4 at
OSCON.
BTW Dan Farber is one of my favorite peeps.
HP to resell open-source email software
HP to resell open-source email software
06/14/2004 03:38 AMZDNet UK Jun 14 2004 8:09AM GMT
NSW announces open-source software
suppliers
NSW announces open-source software
suppliers
04/05/2005 07:50 PMZDNet Australia Apr 5 2005 11:29PM GMT
French opts for open-source software
French opts for open-source software
02/12/2004 08:04 AMComputer Weekly Feb 12 2004 12:12PM GMT
Good Open Source Software Movie
Good Open Source Software Movie
04/09/2004 04:01 PMHow to Misunderstand Open Source
Software Development
How to Misunderstand Open Source
Software Development
12/04/2003 06:05 AMConsulting Times.com
consultingtimes.com/ossdev.html
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ACT first to pass open source software
laws
ACT first to pass open source software
laws
12/11/2003 03:51 AMZDNet Australia Dec 11 2003 2:57AM ET
Open-Source Software a Big Tech Player
(AP)
Open-Source Software a Big Tech Player
(AP)
07/16/2004 11:40 AMAP - It powers more than 70 percent of all Web servers and routes much
of the world's e-mail traffic. It makes surfing the Internet simple
and provides the muscle behind Google Inc.'s search engine and
countless e-commerce sites.
Open-Source Software a Big Tech Player
Open-Source Software a Big Tech Player
07/16/2004 05:17 PMAP via Los Angeles Times Jul 16 2004 9:21PM GMT
Usability and open-source software
development
Usability and open-source software
development
12/10/2003 03:24 AMDOES open source software enhance
security?
DOES open source software enhance
security?
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