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Linux.ie :: Free Maps! (updated)

2007-11-16T06:51:00.000-08:00

Steve Coast will be giving a talk about OpenStreetMap in the HEAnet offices, in the IFSC, Dublin on Thursday the 22nd of November at 7pm.
All are welcome.

Battle for Wi-Fi Space

2007-10-30T08:34:00.000-07:00

Battle for free wi-fi

SiliconRepublic.com: Can open source sweeten the customer experience?

2007-10-22T03:28:00.000-07:00

SiliconRepublic.com: Can open source sweeten the customer experience?

Technology Review: Skype Goes Mobile

2007-10-22T03:16:00.000-07:00

Technology Review: Skype Goes Mobile: "reate a 'new product to make Skype completely mobile,' while 3 Mobile entirely declined to comment. A top executive for iSkoot, a partner company providing some of the networking technology supporting the phone, confirmed that it is in development but declined to provide specifics. A recent BusinessWeek report describes a customized cell phone with a button automatically activating the Skype application. Putting this cost-cutting voice-over-Internet-protocol (VoIP) service at cell-phone subscribers' fingertips could be an attractive way to hold on to customers, particularly 3 Mobile's core demographic of young, Net-s"

Social Responsibility Advocates Demand Open Source Action From Oracle - Seeking Alpha

2007-10-21T09:47:00.000-07:00

Social Responsibility Advocates Demand Open Source Action From Oracle - Seeking Alpha: "because boards always oppose proxy proposals that they didn’t propose. But on the face of it (and I still believe there is more to this under the covers), the OSS movement should oppose the whole idea as poorly t"

Lack of license fee draws UK firms to open source - Computer Business Review

2007-10-13T05:39:00.000-07:00

Lack of license fee draws UK firms to open source - Computer Business Review

Solar Power Rocks Graph of war spending versus energy spending

2007-10-11T16:11:00.000-07:00

Solar Power Rocks Graph of war spending versus energy spending

MuniWireless - Honolulu's Chinatown goes wireless with Meraki

2007-10-11T12:28:00.000-07:00

MuniWireless - Honolulu's Chinatown goes wireless with Meraki

MuniWireless - Sanford, Florida deploys downtown wireless hotzone

2007-10-10T04:14:00.000-07:00

MuniWireless - Sanford, Florida deploys downtown wireless hotzone

Open Source Business Models: Collaborative Software Initiative just launched | Commercial Open Source Software

2007-10-09T03:29:00.000-07:00

Open Source Business Models: Collaborative Software Initiative just launched | Commercial Open Source Software

Scott McNealy's five reasons that free, open source software is good for Sun and our customers : Jim Laurent's Weblog

2007-10-06T14:02:00.000-07:00

Scott McNealy's five reasons that free, open source software is good for Sun and our customers : Jim Laurent's Weblog

Free nationwide WiFi in the UK courtesy of FON and BT - Boing Boing

2007-10-06T06:46:00.000-07:00

Free nationwide WiFi in the UK courtesy of FON and BT - Boing Boing

European Design Engineer : Applying open-source principles

2007-10-01T10:08:00.000-07:00

European Design Engineer : Applying open-source principles

Misunderstanding Innovation

2007-09-28T06:26:00.000-07:00

The commonest error is the failure to recognise that innovation it is an innately incremental and collaborative process. Technological progress, like almost any human endeavour, is a social activity. The greatest philosophers and innovators have always recognised that they were standing on the shoulders of giants.

The current IP-obsessed culture inhibits collaboration, and hampers the natural process of innovation in society.

Fortunately, initiatives like the Free Software movement have shown that innovation can thrive without creating artificial monopolies.

Police Act Review Wiki | Main / Home Page

2007-09-27T00:37:00.000-07:00

Police Act Review Wiki | Main / Home Page

Freedom more important than price or cost... | Open Source Initiative

2007-09-27T00:28:00.000-07:00

Freedom more important than price or cost... | Open Source Initiative: "CIOs and CTOs: the freedom of source enables innovation that's otherwise impossible, modular architectures based on transparent, open standards provide greater efficiency and robustness, and competitive vendor offerings that are based on service rather than lock-in deliver competitive value in both time-to-market and quality of implementation. In short, the win-win-win of open source is no longer mere theory, but in evidence throughout the enterprise and around the world. And, to the extent that IT buyers can exercise choice (when they a"

Computerworld - Open source to help quell ICT trade deficit: Waugh

2007-09-27T00:24:00.000-07:00

Computerworld - Open source to help quell ICT trade deficit: Waugh

Technology Review: Opening Up the Patent Process

2007-09-24T05:10:00.000-07:00

Technology Review: Opening Up the Patent Process

Open Source Is the Big Disruptor

2007-09-22T01:04:00.000-07:00

Gartner declared open-source software the biggest disruptor the software industry has ever seen and postulated it will eventually result in cheaper software and new business models.

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CNews: Russian OS to be installed in every school

2007-09-21T01:23:00.000-07:00

CNews: Russian OS to be installed in every school

Russia is latest country to move towards OpenDocument format and open standards - ITRPortal.com

2007-09-21T01:21:00.000-07:00

Russia is latest country to move towards OpenDocument format and open standards - ITRPortal.com

GotzeBlogged � Blog Archive � Netherlands Picks ODF

2007-09-20T09:34:00.000-07:00

On behalf of the Dutch government, Frank Heemskerk, Minister of Economic Affairs, announced today that ODF will be the standard for reading, publishing and the exchange of information for all governmental organisations. The deadline is January 2009. Heemskerk’s announcement is just one of several initiatives about the use of open standards and open source software in Dutch government.

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Government to boost use of free software

2007-09-17T12:38:00.000-07:00

The government is to make more use of free and open source software in order to cut costs and make it less dependent on powerful single suppliers such as Microsoft, news agency ANP reports.

Government departments will only be able to deviate from open source software if they have a good reason to do so, junior economic affairs minister Frank Heemskerk is reported as saying. The plan, which has full cabinet backing, will be sent to MPs on Monday, ANP says.

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Government backsliding on open source

2007-09-10T11:11:00.000-07:00

Lib Dem Treasury spokesperson Julia Goldsworthy said: “The government's performance on open source is shocking. It has reports from 2001 indicating the benefits and yet it has failed to follow its own recommendations and continues to engage in proprietary lock in with major corporations."

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"The government announced and re-announced these plans years ago to great fanfare. The sad fact both for open source industry and the taxpayer is that the plans have not been fully implemented.”

Goldsworthy is set to challenge Cabinet Office minister Ed Miliband on the use of open source software across government – and its potential to produce efficiency savings – in the forthcoming parliamentary session.

Earlier this year, the Conservatives also attacked the government over open source when shadow chancellor George Osborne argued that greater use of open source software in the public sector could save £600m a year.

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Revenue based on maintenance, not licenses

2007-09-05T04:52:00.000-07:00

Forrester predicts that for SAP, Oracle and PeopleSoft, maintenance revenue will remain at more than 40 percent of overall sales for the foreseeable future.

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