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Archived Free and Open Source Software Articles
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16 Mar 2010
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Document Freedom Day Set for March 31st [22906]
To Educate About the Importance of ODF and Open Standards
Document Freedom Day 2010 is March 31st and there will be events all over the world. Document Freedom Day (DFD) is a global day for document liberation. It will be a day of grassroots effort to educate the public about the importance of Open Document Formats (ODF) and Open Standards in general. Learn more about DFD and how to get involved by visiting the DFD's main page.
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10 Mar 2010
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Oracle's Open Source Initiatives [22911]
Now the World's Largest Purveyor of Open Source Software
With its acquisition of Sun, Oracle is now the world's largest purveyor of open source software. However, as Ken Hess notes on the DaniWeb Forum Index, Oracle's support didn't start with its purchase of InnoDB, MySQL or Sun. The company has a history of supporting free and open source software and has done much for the FOSS community.
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04 Mar 2010
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Will IT Be More Open in 2010? [22900]
Three Reasons Why it is Inevitable
Inevitably IT will be more open by the end of 2010, contends Evan Powell, who cites these three reasons on why the momentum toward openness is certain:
- 1. Moore's Law -> abstraction -> freedom and flexibility and openness
- 2. Tight budgets -> open minds
- 3. Open source critical mass cannot be stopped
Visit Powell's blog for details.
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01 Feb 2010
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Free Software Appeals to CIOs [22794]
Survey Reports Move Toward Free Apps on the Horizon
A recent poll of US and UK CIOS finds that a majority of firms are using free software applications across their networks, and plan to increase their usage of free software. According to marketing-research firm Vanson Bourne, about 76 percent of CIOs surveyed claimed they use free software applications at the organizational level, while 88 percent said they have deployed free software applications at departmental levels.
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20 Jan 2010
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What Is the Outlook for Open Source? [22733]
Sun Execs Simon Phipps and Bob Worrall Examine the Issue
Simon Phipps and Bob Worrall, two Sun stalwarts who know as much or more than anyone else about the value of open source solutions, share their views of the state of open source in Worrall's Sun Inner Circle column, "Open Source: Where We've Been and Where It's Headed." The column is addressed to the corporate CIOs among its readers.
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