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? Learning Opportunities
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? Learning Opportunities

On WebM again: freedom, quality, patents The arguments made against WebM video by H.264 advocates turn out to be at best wildly exaggerated and at worst baseless...

? The Open-By-Rule Governance Benchmark
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? The Open-By-Rule Governance Benchmark

With Oracle’s OpenJDK Project about to announce new community governance, many people have asked what I look for in good open source project and community governance...

? Rebooting Procurement
From Wild WebMink

? Rebooting Procurement

European Commission consults on the modernisation of the European Public Procurement Market The European Commission’s consultation is in progress until April. It...

? Sirius News
From Wild WebMink

? Sirius News

When we started last year, it was thrilling to see how many companies responded when we asked who would be interested in reselling ForgeRock subscriptions, consulting...

? New Moves
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? New Moves

Jenkins! By a massive margin (214 to 14) the Hudson community has decided to rename itself Jenkins and rehost on independent resources. I just hope Oracle decides...

? New OpenDJ Architect
From Wild WebMink

? New OpenDJ Architect

Last week I broke the news that ForgeRock (where I work) had gained an architect for OpenIDM. Today is the last day of ForgeRock’s first year, and I’m pleased to...

Campus Party
From Wild WebMink

Campus Party

I just got home from a week in Brazil, where I gave talks for IBM and for a large ForgeRock customer and also at the remarkable Campus Party. This is the second...

links for 2011-01-27
From Wild WebMink

links for 2011-01-27

Bookdarts bookmarks – 50 count tin – bronze: Amazon.co.uk: Office Products I have loved these paper-thin metal page markers ever since I first discovered them in...

? Indemnity Article Available/Dispon
From Wild WebMink

? Indemnity Article Available/Dispon

My article on the problem of indemnity requirements for open source procurement is now available in the Essays section, in English and Portuguese. O artigo “Aquisi...

links for 2011-01-26
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links for 2011-01-26

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? Fixing The Chilling Effect of Trademarks
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? Fixing The Chilling Effect of Trademarks

Brazil’s new License for Trademarks (Licen

? Fixing The JCP
From Wild WebMink

? Fixing The JCP

Oracle Nominates Bruno Souza of SouJava to JCP EC A very astute move by Oracle here. They are proposing that the seat on the Java Community Process Executive Committee...

Another RockStar at ForgeRock
From Wild WebMink

Another RockStar at ForgeRock

You’ll recall that ForgeRock (where I work) launched the OpenIDM project back in October. One of the key control points in enterprise software is the provisioning...

links for 2011-01-23
From Wild WebMink

links for 2011-01-23

Oops: No copied Java code or weapons of mass destruction found in Android | ZDNet Ed Burnette takes a look at the allegation from a lobbyist that Google is guilty...

Procurement and Indemnity
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Procurement and Indemnity

Legacy procurement rules that insist on indemnity from open source subscription suppliers are an unnecessary barrier to open source adoption. Read about this on...

? Speaking at Campus Party Brasil on Saturday
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? Speaking at Campus Party Brasil on Saturday

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? OSI and FSF Collaborate In DoJ Referral
From Wild WebMink

? OSI and FSF Collaborate In DoJ Referral

Before Christmas I reported that the Open Source Initiative (OSI) had written to the German Federal Cartel Office (FCO) asking them to investigate the acquisition...

links for 2011-01-19
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links for 2011-01-19

People's Choice Award 2010 – opensource.com The OpenSource.Com website that Red Hat run is having a ballot to select the top contributor for 2010 – vote now! (tags...

links for 2011-01-18
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links for 2011-01-18

On the map Interesting slide show illustrating the power of OpenStreetMap to overcome political bias that prevents the real world being documented. (tags: OpenStreetMap...

Apple and Google and ODF
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Apple and Google and ODF

I’m in Latvia today speaking at the Latvian Open Technology Association annual conference. The speaker before me was from the government and made an important announcement...
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