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The Open Source Renaissance
By Brian Gentile, Jaspersoft CEO. It occurred to me recently that the open source movement is really nothing less than a renaissance.  Perhaps...
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Posted 10 Mar 2010
Brian Gentile
Business »
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Love, hate, and the Wikipedia contributor culture problem
Last fall, a group of researchers at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) released a study showing an abrupt leveling off in the number of editors...
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Posted 8 Mar 2010
Chris Grams
Education »
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Jaron Lanier: open textbooks "appalling and preposterous"
Jaron Lanier is certainly getting his share of press lately.  His latest guest starring role: a rant in Monday's very special episode of L....
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Posted 3 Mar 2010
Greg DeKoenigsberg (Red Hat)
Business »
Article
Social production as a new source of economic value creation
In this short TED video clip, Yochai Benkler provides a useful framing of what he terms “social production.”
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Posted 3 Mar 2010
Tony O'Driscoll
Life »
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Acceleration for open source cars?
We could be closer to consumer options for open source cars than ever before. Which begs the question, could the recent floor mat entrapment and...
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Posted 1 Mar 2010
Jason Hibbets (Red Hat)
Law, Government »
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Indonesia: the IIPA is "Watching" you.
If you use open source, you have no respect for intellectual property. Or at least, that’s what the International Intellectual Property Alliance...
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Posted 26 Feb 2010
Melanie Chernoff (Red Hat)
Education »
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Moodle: open source, closed doors.
It's the leading open source learning management system in the world. It provides 100s of 1000s (millions?) of students and teachers, learners and...
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Posted 25 Feb 2010
Joseph Thibault
Business »
Article
A handbook for the open source way, written the open source way
Remember the Seinfeld episode where Kramer had the idea to make a coffee table book about coffee tables? I always thought that was a pretty elegant...
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Posted 22 Feb 2010
Chris Grams
Law »
Article
Looking out for Bilski: software patents v. FOSS
Users of free and open source software (“FOSS”) have little to gain and much to fear from the patent system. The patent system poses two major...
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Posted 18 Feb 2010
Mishi
Should Be »
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Welcome to the conversation on opensource.com
As the CEO of Red Hat, this is a day I've been looking forward to for quite some time. In my travels, I often find myself talking to people from all...
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Posted 25 Jan 2010
Jim Whitehurst (Red Hat)