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sábado, 9 de junio de 2012

Development by Davis

Posted: 08 Jun 2012 01:20 PM PDT

Deb Nicholson is worried about the future of our data.
They're being stockpiled by organizations whose ability to protect them is diminishing, but whose ability to keep users from accessing or transporting them is increasing. Bit by bit, these data are being centralized--gathered in large repositories outside users' control and sequestered there when competing products or services can't access or read them.

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jueves, 16 de febrero de 2012

Development by Davis: “Does open design hardware have a place in manufacturing?” plus 1 more

Does open design hardware have a place in manufacturing?

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 01:59 AM PST

Do you remember HeathKit? The company that sold circuit board and resistor kits you could assemble to make your own electronics?
Building a HeathKit was no great feat of engineering—it came with a fixed list of parts and the schematic—but it helped you understand how electronics work by letting you assemble your own electronic products. And back in the day, a well-built HeathKit radio was every bit as good as the store-bought ones.

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OpenForum Europe finds trademark references in IT procurements widespread, break rules

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 12:00 AM PST

OpenForum Europe finds increase in IT procurement trademarks references

Report: 'Contracting authorities must take exit costs into account'

Public administrations that are procuring IT services and software must add to the budget plan the exit costs needed to move to alternative IT solutions after the end of the contract period. That is one of the recommendations by Open Forum Europe, an organisation advocating the use of open standards in ICT, in a report on procurement published this Monday.

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martes, 14 de febrero de 2012

Development by Davis: “Five and a half couples who shared love and work the open source way” plus 1 more

Five and a half couples who shared love and work the open source way

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 09:00 PM PST

It's Valentine's Day, which is about love and relationships, and successful relationships are always based on the same principles that make open source projects successful--transparency, sharing, and generally working together for something better than either could have alone. Here are five couples who were not only partners in love, but in their work that also reflected the open source way.

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Open Advice offers guidance for new open source contributors and the more experienced

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 07:34 AM PST

A new book sharing the perspectives of 42 open source contributors launched this month at FOSDEM. Open Advice, edited by Lydia Pintscher, shares what those successful people wish they'd known when they got started with open source software.
In the foreword, Georg Greve, founding president of the Free Software Foundation Europe, explains why such a book is important, even to those barely aware of free and open source software:

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