Keeping pace with open source
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Linux looms large in software shifts in India. Plus: Version 3 of the GPL gets a long-awaited release.
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It's not so much that there aren't workable business models around Open Source. But life is so much easier when those models can include pieces that people have to pay for as well.
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The Firefox browser may have put the spotlight on the open-source Mozilla Foundation, but the group&#39;s namesake suite also continues to progress.
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Open-source enterprise software developer OpenLogic wants open-source users to stand up and be counted in a worldwide census-- and is offering a new software tool to help the process.
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Ziff Davis - The emergence of stacks of open-source infrastructure software will spawn new opportunities for companies to enter and succeed in the open-source space, according to a panel of experts at the Harvard Business School's annual Cyberposium conference.
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InfoWorld - Enterprises are opening up to open source alternatives to commercial software, panelists said at the SDForum conference &#8220;Open Source Entering the Mainstream,&#8221; held in Santa Clara, Calif., last week.
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Enterprises are opening up to open source alternatives to commercial software, panelists said at the SDForum conference âOpen Source Entering the Mainstream,â held in Santa Clara, Calif., last week.
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An upgrade to the OpenSource Kit 2.7, Linux Version, has been released. This complete foundation server kit will setup out-of-the box on most Linux distributions. Build an enterprise quality web, intranet, database, commerce, portal server in minutes. In addition, the OpenSource Kit server is supported by many of the best enterprise quality applications available, all with the ease of plug-in setup and deployment.   You can find the latest release here: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=114854&package_id=124553
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In theory, the open-source concept is simple, elegant, almost utopian: thousands of developers contributing their skills to continually improve and refine a piece of software for the common good.
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Mozilla shows the way to build a successful open-source project, with great results.
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Google is in the online ad-service business. Why does it lavish attention on software developers and open-source projects? Kicking offline Web apps into gear
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In a bid to bring Linux to the marketplace, the open-source community and manufacturers agree on new rules for Linux. The often unruly world of open-source software drew closer to marching in lockstep Monday
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Gone are the days when free software could blithely ignore what was happening in the world of proprietary code.  The two approaches are now inextricably intertwined as more and more users and companies choose to run both.  One paradoxical consequence of this is that as free software becomes more widely deployed, Microsoft's impact on it becomes greater.  Against this background, a recent shift in Microsoft's public statements about open source assumes a particular importance.
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OCTOBER 18, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - The biggest challenge for the open-source community is that there are too few open-source developers, according to Michael Tiemann, vice president of open-source affairs at Red Hat Inc.
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Warm, fuzzy and free, the open-source operating system is winning over both Windows and Mac users. Ready to try it? Here's what you need to know. By SeÃ¡n Captain.
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Open source enterprise software developer OpenLogic wants open source users to stand up and be counted in a worldwide census -- and is offering a new software tool to help the process.The number of licenses sold gives vendors of proprietary software a pretty good idea of how many people are using their code, assuming there are not too many pirated copies in use, or licensed copies gathering dust on shelves. They can also draw on information about paid upgrades or service contracts, or sell unique license keys, verified by a central server each time the software is installed -- or even used.Open source software developers have no such luck; the very nature of open source licenses makes such verification methods impossible. One clue they have is a count of how many people have downloaded the software from their Web sites. Reaching 1 million downloads is a rite of passage for open source projects.&#160;SugarCRM, for example, passed that landmark in May.Such counts, though, may underestimate the number of users, as anyone who obtains open source software is free to redistribute it by any other means they choose -- as long as they accompany it with a copy of the open source license and make the source code readily available.On the other hand, they may wildly overestimate the number; people may download the software with no intention of using it, since there is no financial disincentive to doing so, or they may download it multiple times if they upgrade it, wipe and reinstall their system, or have several computers.To come up with an accurate figure for the number of users of various open source applications in the enterprise, OpenLogic has released an automated census tool, OSS Discovery, itself available under an open source license.It hopes that businesses will scan their machines using the tool and contribute the data about the applications they are using to an open database.The tool could offer advantages to IT managers too, said OpenLogic, enabling them to build up a picture of the software installed on desktops and servers around their business and compare it with that used in other enterprises.OpenLogic is looking for partners to distribute or deploy the software and wants open source software developers to contribute digital &quot;fingerprints&quot; of their applications that will enable the discovery tool to identify them. Those who help with the project will be offered access to the anonymous data gathered.OSS Discovery 2.0 is based on the company&#39;s OpenLogic Discovery tool and is distributed under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3. This recently introduced license extends the GPL license to ensure that changes to software used to power publicly available services will be contributed to the free software community, even if the modified software is not itself distributed.OpenLogic hopes to begin collecting census data early next year.
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Ziff Davis - Opinion: Open-source software development may not be easy, and no one likes to air their dirty laundry, but in the end, it's the smartest way to make software.