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lunes, 23 de julio de 2012

Development by Davis: “Open Source for America asks U.S. government to "Free the Code"” plus 1 more

Open Source for America asks U.S. government to "Free the Code"

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 05:00 AM PDT

Open Source for America launched a petition Thursday to "Free the Code," an effort to encourage the U.S. federal government to release custom-developed, taxpayer-funded software as open source by default.

"Free the Code is an initiative to start a national conversation on taxpayer investments in software and information technology," said John Scott, co-chair of Open Source for America's steering committee. "Specifically, we're interested in how publicly-funded software code developed by the government, which isn't already covered by a proprietary license, should be made available to the wider public."

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Four insights to selling and marketing open source software

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 03:00 AM PDT

In the last 15 years of my career I have worked at several open source software companies, each with its own unique approach to software delivery, packaging, branding, and sales. Two things have become clear to me: