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Is the open source community too clubbish for its own good? Several thought pieces I?ve seen recently got me to thinking that this might be the case, at least in terms of relevance to businesses. Dominic Sartorio makes a good case that open sourcers are increasingly balkanizing, instead of pursuing multilateral approaches that could increase adoption and help the growth of commercial open source efforts. Meanwhile, recent comments from Obsidian Systems? director Anton de Wet suggest that open source needs a whole new breed of business matchmakers to speed adoption from reluctant companies. Is the whole business outreach program in need of an overhaul?
Last week Novell released version 1.9 of the Mono open source .NET framework as well as a new IDE called Monodevelop. The newest version of Mono now supports a number of the advanced features found in Microsoft?s .NET 3.0 framework.
While Mono and Novell, which sponsors the project, have been much maligned by various factions within the open source community, the overall impact Mono could have on Microsoft and the open source community could in fact be large.
Late last month Microsoft received a tentative slap in the face when the ISO\IEC didnοΎt approve MicrosoftοΎs OOXML (Open Office XML) format as an ISO standard. This came as a bit of a surprise to industry analysts as Microsoft has been lobbying hard to get its Office file format approved.
Late last year the head of the working group handling MicrosoftοΎs application at the ISO accused the company of stacking his group and interfering in ISO business.
Looking to start a wiki? Socialized Software has an interesting discussion of Deki Wiki, reported to be ultra-simple to use.....Attorneys at the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) have published an analysis of Microsoft's Open Specification Promise (see our story below), cautioning that it offers FOSS developers no real protection. See The Inquirer's take on it.....Web Worker Daily has a look at mind-mapping, brainstorming software, including good input from readers, and a look at the open source application FreeMind.
The European Commission plans to buy open-source software wherever possible. Here are some reasons why it makes sense for governments to adopt such a policy.
A spokeswoman for Siim Kallas, the Commission member responsible for administrative affairs, audit, and anti-fraud, told the International Herald-Tribune that open-source software should be pursued provided it does not cost more and is in the best interest of European citizens.
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