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Open Enterprise
Glyn Moody's look at all levels of the enterprise open source stack. The blog will look at the organisations that are embracing open source, old and new alike (start-ups welcome), and the communities of users and developers that have formed around them (or not, as the case may be).
February 09, 2010
Quick: Time to Stop the SWIFT Agreement
The so-called SWIFT Agreement, where SWIFT refers to the “Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication”, has close parallels with ACTA, about which I have written several times - not least the way it has gradually emerged from the shadows to be met by growing outrage from people who were kept in the dark about it.
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February 08, 2010
Has the Irresistible Rise of OpenOffice.org Begun?
Regular readers of this blog will know that I'm a big fan of OpenOffice.org, and that I think it has the potential to break through into the mainstream. Maybe it's already begun, judging by these figures from webmasterpro.de:
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February 08, 2010
Crowdsourcing + Open Source: the Perfect Combination for Startups?
Crowdsourcing represents an interesting attempt to generalise the open source methodology to non-technical areas. The basic idea is to tap into the the vast store of knowledge and wisdom among the general population by providing a mechanism to funnel the best ideas to those who can build on them.
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February 05, 2010
Oh, What a Lovely Standards War
You know something big must be afoot when people start to get worked up over video compression standards. Basically, the issue is whether the current de facto standard, H.264, will continue to dominate this field, and if not, what might take over.
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February 04, 2010
From Open Source to Open Government
Yesterday I had an interesting chat with Paul Clarke, an advisor to government departments on digital strategy, and a man with fingers in many interesting pies, about open government. The central issue we were ruminating upon was how to help those within government who want to open up, given the huge inertial forces operating against them.
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February 03, 2010
The New Face of Open Source: Facebook
Without doubt, one of the most extraordinary developments in recent years has been the rise of Facebook - not just as the most popular social network, but increasingly as a force to reckoned with in the world of computing, perhaps soon on the scale of Microsoft and Google. This makes its relationship to free software something of more than passing interest.
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January 28, 2010
A “Refreshed” ICT Strategy for Government?
As I've noted many times, the UK government's track record when it comes to open source has been woeful. However, over the last year or two, there have been some grounds for optimism, albeit more along the lines of talking the talk rather than walking the walk. And here we have some more talk: a “refreshed” version of the ICT strategy.
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January 27, 2010
Early Day Motion Calling for ACTA Transparency
Yesterday I was asking you to write to your MPs about the Digital Economy Bill. If you haven't already done that, perhaps you could tack on a request for them to support this Early Day Motion:
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January 26, 2010
United Against the Digital Economy Bill
As readers of this blog will be well aware, the UK's Digital Economy Bill is currently grinding its way through Parliament.
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