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Cloudsmith: A Hint of the Future

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What user of open source has not wrestled with software installation at one time or another? If you're not tracking down conflicts or hunting for the download site for the current version of something, you're chasing dependencies in a seemingly-endless chain. Perhaps this is a symptom of the decentralized and rapidly-moving nature of open source - or perhaps not. Cloudsmith (in seemingly-eternal beta) suggests that there might be a way to get past at least some of the installation pain points.


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FOSS: Keeping it Legal

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There are two streams of creativity that come together to create a free or open-source software application. The first, and most obvious to the majority of developers, is the set of bits that make up the source code for the application. But equally important to the political aspirations behind open source is the second stream: the legal craft that goes into making up the license for the software. If, like most developers, you're a bit shaky on this second part, help is as close as the publications of the Software Freedom Law Center.


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What's Your Open Source Motivation?

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The open source community is composed of diverse individuals with a variety of motivations. Anyone who's been around for a while has heard the phrase herding cats applied, and it generally fits. Some more evidence of this comes from a survey run by OpenLogic. They talked to members of their own Expert Community - folks with good experience who have signed up to help resolve enterprise support incidents - and asked, among other things, who they worked for.


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Microsoft to Help Sourcesense Open Office

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The open source community has been suspicious of Microsoft for years - and often, one must admit, with good reason. But when the company does something that appears to actually benefit open source, it's worth noting that too.

One such move is the partnership, announced today, between Microsoft and major European open source integrator Sourcesense.



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Open Source Dev on OS X - Why?

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At the last conference of developers using open source tools I attended, I noticed two things: everyone had a laptop, and the overwhelming majority of those laptops were made by Apple. This situation is hardly unusual--MacBooks are endemic in many corners of the open source community.

But why? Surely developers using open source tools would be better served by running on open source from the ground up, rather than paying for a proprietary operating system.



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git: This Year's Version Control Fashion

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Version control systems seem to run in waves in the open source world. For many years, the venerable CVS had the lion's share of usage. Then along came Subversion, with the announced goal of being a compelling replacement for CVS. Subversion has gained enough popularity to be the baked-in choice in many tracking and management tools. Lately, though, I've been seeing more and more interest in git - the system used to track changes to the Linux kernel itself, among many other things.


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Deploying Open Source the Easy Way

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Sometimes one of the biggest barriers to open source adoption is the effort involved in installing software, especially on the server. With applications from WordPress to Rails, setting up a server with everything properly configured can be a daunting task. Fortunately, in a free market solutions readily arise to issues like this, and there are now several easy ways to get a variety of preconfigured open source applications up and running.


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Choosing the Perfect License

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We tend to speak of open source as if it were just one thing. In reality, though, there are plenty of conflicting interests and different ideas even within the open source community. Some of these differences manifest in our continuing spawning of new licenses: at the moment, the Open Source Initiative catalogs over sixty licenses that have made it through their review process. Given those choices (and the possibility of inventing your own license), how do you pick a license at the start of a new project?


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Web Servers: Don't Count Apache Out

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There's been discussion in the open source world about a decline in the popularity of the dominant Apache web server. These concerns are fueled largely by the Netcraft survey of the internet, which shows a 20% decline in Apache's market share over the last three years, from a high near 70% to the 50% or so it enjoys today. But bearing in mind the old saw about lies and statistics, it's worth digging a bit more to see what these numbers mean.


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Mono: Maturing, but Relevant?

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The Mono Project has reached a couple of milestones recently: the release of version 1.0 of the MonoDevelop IDE, and the release of Mono 1.9, the beta for Mono 2.0. (Mono releases do not track .NET releases exactly, so Mono 2.0 will include a mix of features from .NET 2.0 and later versions). This advances the ability of open source developers to use the .NET platform, but how much does that matter?


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