Irritated at Open Source software that doesn’t use standard licensing but instead picks and chooses from other licenses. A huge amount of the value in Open Source licensing is not in the text of the licenses themselves. Great – it’s a free use agreement. It’s in the fact that we’ve got a standards body and a set of standard accepted licenses. Suddenly you can start to have standard use definitions rather than having to look at every license as if it is unique.

TRUSTe is seeking a talented, experienced JSP Web Developer to join its engineering team. The JSP Web Developer will own the User Interface of major website projects from inception to development and delivery, working closely with the Platform Architect. Key Responsibilities: Own front end design and visual execution Work closely with Platform Architect to expand TRUSTe ecommerce storefront Build online customer portal framework to enable customer segment specific experiences (eg

With Oracle’s recent $7.38 billion dollar buyout of Sun Microsystems, some new product recipes are bound to end up on the fattened company’s revisited menu. New head chef Larry Ellison is now directing the flavor of Sun’s software products, and some people are concerned for possible drastic changes, especially during this economic recession and the necessity for Oracle to bring in new channels of revenue.

Chris Wiles, vnunet.com , Saturday 11 July 2009 at 00:00:00 Host a virtual operating system This is the software publisher’s description . Powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

GeeXboX is a full operating system, running under Linux and based on the excellent MPlayer. No need of hard drive, you just have to put the GeeXboX bootable CD into the CD-Drive of any pentium-class computer to boot it. Moreover, GeeXboX is a free software, created thanks to many open-source software. This means that everyone can modify it and build his own release of the GeeXboX. You may wonder why you could have to boot on another operating system to play your media files, but just think about the Mini-ITX plateforms like VIA Epia/Eden or Shuttle barebones.

EBay Says There’s No Deal Yet With GM [Carpocalypse] – jalopnik.com 07/10/2009 Remember that deal GM had this morning with EBay to experiment with auctioning new cars ? The one designed to make the ol’ Detroit automaker look innovative? Turns out there’s no deal with EBay. When will GM learn? Hey, GM, would you mind meeting us over at camera three for a minute? OK, GM, seriously, between us, you’ve got to stop this whole half-assed PR thing.

jrdesktop – Java Remote Desktop is “an open source software for viewing and/or controlling a distance PC”. Remote control software in development, free. Posted in Freeware/Shareware, Help, sharing Tagged: control, freeware, Java Remote Desktop, jrdesktop, remote

VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software. download now

I am in the middle of listening to the new book by Chris Anderson called FREE.  With my new commute, audio books and podcasts have become increasingly important in my life. FREE outlines a new economy where companies offer their products and services for free.  Certainly its not entirely new-  this is what broadcast TV and radio have done for years.  But recently technology has allowed this concept to happen in a better form and in a bigger way.  Google has done this wonderfully for years, along

Link dump for Fri. 2009/07/10 after the cut. The wiki version includes a tag cloud.Links: 10 Rules That Govern Groups ? PsyBlog (Group,Psychology) 10 Wind Turbines That Push the Limits of Design – AWEA Report 20% Wind Report Card and Wind Turbine Design – Popular Mechanics (Energy,Energy.Generation,Wind,Design) 100 or so Books that shaped a Century of Science ? American Scientist (Science,History,Book,Influence,List) 19 Open Source Tools for Programmers | The Tech Land (OpenSource,SoftwareDevelopment,Tool,List)

[ awww … isn’t that cute? They’re running µTorrent together…] So. The 15in … at their front door one day soon, dolled-out in the sexiest open source software you’ve ever seen: fully

Make Money Online Doing Affiliate Marketing the Easy Way With the internet dominating all aspects of our lives, … support for open source software to users if you are familiar with the software. Example of these software are online blogging tools such as WordPress. Though most of these software are generally free

The team that bring us VLC , the uber-cool free video player, has made version 1.0.0 available … can open.) As it’s free, open-source software, you can either get binaries for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and BeOS, or get the source code and build it for whatever platform you need it for. (Though

A top story of the day on many of the news outlets is about Sergey Aleynikov, … hard to find the headline, Goldman sees no impact from computer programmer-source. It isn’

Open source software testing tools http://bit.ly/klRJ3 Share and Enjoy:Tags: tweets, twitter

Linkvia U.S. Department of EnergyOpenStudio is a free plugin for the Google SketchUp 3D drawing program … into structure designs from the get-go by way of an open-source software platform.This idea isn’t entirely new. The DOE already provides energy modeling software called EnergyPlus, which simulates

New Feature- and Resource-Rich Site Can Help Anyone Become a Master of Wikis, Blogs, Podcasting, Website Development, Social Media Tools and Much More Highlighted Links BALTIMORE, MD–(Marketwire – July 7, 2009) – With a commitment to digital empowerment, Webbmedia Group today announced the launch of Knowledgewebb ,

The marketing and communications industry often find its inspiration through outreach to ‘edgy’, street or political artists … . This is a particularly grey area for street art, say, or open source software or hardware. After all, if you’ve

Mobile cloud computing represents an opportunity for the free/libre open source software movement that is just as big and radical as cloud computing, … power from the cloud because of their limited resources. Just as Free/Libre Open Source Software … and freedom, the Free Software movement has the potential to provide a similar yet different impact

Osalt – Find open source software alternatives to well-known commercial software. You know it makes sense…

A recent New Yorker article takes on the digerati notion that “information wants to be free.” For example, Google is free but makes money on ads. The New Yorker is free online. Open source software is free. Computers get cheaper and cheaper. It’s sometimes predicted that music

The ERACC Web Log: “Is it correct to compare the freedom of Free Open Source Software (FOSS) to the freedom gained from the Revolution of the States?”

The ERACC Web Log: “Is it correct to compare the freedom of Free Open Source Software (FOSS) to the freedom gained from the Revolution of the States?”

Yesterday, I wrote about the clarification regarding WordPress Themes and the GPL (v2) … that WordPress is GPL, and that any open source software that uses a GPL license discourages developer … persuasive, but then I reflected that for anyone developing and selling proprietary software , Daniel’

Happy Independence day to my US readers. This holiday is a celebration of the United States adoption of the Declaration of Independence which … to take care of clients. Open source software has allowed me (and many others) freedoms, on many levels … be a good day to remind everyone what open source is all about…at least on a fundamental, non-TCO-ROI

Jul 4th, 2009by Gene. Today is the day that the United States of America celebrates Independence Day … the freedom of Free Open Source Software (FOSS) to the freedom gained from the Revolution … as I know God does not guarantee any unalienable rights for free software. But in other ways

<a href=”http://flickr.com/photos/ladyada/2674943279/” mce_href=”http://flickr … , the open source software can be used to read from and write to the card. Together they can be used … , with a few modifications. The software is a fork of Todd Whiteman’s pySim More Information

You can download Ares free if you like; it’s open source software … like a lot of similar software does. Already it has 30 million members and as of late May … video, software, and video games. Ares also has chat rooms and an instant messenger

I downloaded Firefox 3.5 for my Mac this morning – after carefully checking that it would work with my plugins, especially the beloved Zotero . The new features list is a variable set, but one of the more remarkable is its ability to send information about your whereabouts to Google, who then can plot your position on Google Maps

updated on Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:16:05 +0300 – A collection of free and open source software

File sharing happens when folks who are connected to the Internet use file-sharing programs to replicate files between each other … , and disciple the use of file sharing as a free marketing tool. Virtually all shareware, freeware, and open source software might be shared as much as the end user wishes, depending on the End User Disclaimer

I’m going to venture outside the realm of software and contemplate a different philosophical issue: what makes man unique? … and a myriad of other elements, particles, and pieces combined in a unique way.  Software only works

Dear Programmers and IT Teams, We have some GREAT companies on SCRIPTLANCE … . We are seriously courting Webgui open source software as our root CMS framework. WE will be doing a SWITCH … to our website. Further we would require A CUSTOM STANDALONE WEBCAM. You can PICK THE OPEN SOURCE, MAKING

The podcast I created for SXSW Interactive has finally been posted. You can find it here on the extended content page … of open source software? How about hot topics such as net neutrality, censorship, or the digital

We’ll be using the OCS software to manage the OpenOffice.org Annual Conference this year (and any other  OpenOffice.org Conferences that want to use it). If you want a sneak preview of the site, look here Grateful thanks to the Public Knowledge Project for a great piece of open-source software.

The feds are beating the CONNECT drum. This week, ONC sponsored a two-day event in DC to begin educating the market as to what CONNECT is and how … .) So what is CONNECT? In simplest terms, CONNECT is a technology stack built with Open Source software … , mostly the Sun open source stack.  The underlying database today is Sun Solaris, on top

VirtualBox 3.0.0 | 67.48 Mb VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware … virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software. Some of the features of VirtualBox are: Modularity … : even though it is Open Source Software, you don’t have to hack the source to write a new interface

HIT me baby one more time, Or: How I learned to stop worrying and love Amazon Mechanical Turk — Aaron Shaw :: July 7, 2009; 12:30 pm :: … , Aaron has written about the politics of development and Free and Open Source Software in Brazil, where

Sourceforge is a website that allows developers to host their Open Source applications on … have also been made to the project pages which make it now easier to download the Open Source software … , open source hosting , open source programs , software hosting , sourceforge , web hosting Related

Sourceforge is a website that allows developers to host their Open Source applications on … have also been made to the project pages which make it now easier to download the Open Source software … , open source hosting , open source programs , software hosting , sourceforge , web hosting Related