Posts about Open Source Software as of September 11, 2009

The nonprofit CodePlex Foundation is being set up with backing from Microsoft . The Redmond based software company has contributed $1 million, and provided numerous Microsoft employees to run the nonprofit’s board. Microsoft’s former senior director of platform strategy, Sam Ramji, will serve as the temporary head of CodePlex.   Before you go thinking this is totally out of the ordinary for Bill Gate’s baby, the CodePlex website clears a few things up.

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This afternoon I sent in my submission to the consultation . Today is September 11?th, and Sunday September 13?th is the last day make your voice heard in the 2009 copyright consultation. There are so many more things I would like to say on copyright, but at 8 pages I felt it was already pretty long. I have given several presentations lasting an hour for what amounts to a single clause in the 1996 WIPO treaties. The format of this consultation doesn’t allow us the ability to discuss at this level of detail, but only very broadly.

At this week’s Gov 2.0 Summit, the feds seemed to have a coming out party of sorts for their new approach to IT in government – do it faster, lighter and be more transparent. Kundra & Chopra spoke about how open standards and building platforms for citizens to expound on government data should be major parts of new federal IT spending. The agenda was filled with sermons on the virtue of transparency and the wisdom of open source. Watching these things be taken so seriously warms my heart.

“If one’s imagination readily grants full human rights to future AI programs, robots, dolphins, and extraterrestrial aliens, mere color and gender can’t seem very important any more.” But not in open source!

InnoTek VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software. Some of the features of VirtualBox are: * Modularity. VirtualBox has an extremely modular design with well-defined internal programming [...]

This open source foundation brought to you by … Microsoft?! That’s correct – Microsoft has launched the CodePlex Foundation, with the aim of encouraging commercial software vendors to participate in open source software development.

September 11th, 2009 Posted by Richard Koman @ September 11, 2009 @ 12:59 PMCategories:Government technologyTags:Open-source Foundation, Ars Technica, Patent, Microsoft Corp., Ramji, Open Source, Richard KomanThis open source foundation brought to you by … Microsoft?!That’s correct – Microsoft has launched the CodePlex Foundation, with the aim of encouraging commercial software vendors to participate in open source software development, reports Ars Technica.Ars wonders if the timing of this support for commercial investment in open source is entirely coincidental.

The other day I received an email from a faculty member, asking me if there were any free forum tools that allowed threaded discussions. She said she had looked at http://www.freeforums.org but could not see any way the discussions could be viewed in a threaded format. I had never heard of free forums, so of course had to detour whatever I had been doing (must not have been that important, since I don’t remember what it was!) and take a look at it. Free Forums is actually a very powerful tool to quickly create online discussion forums.

As we commemorate the eighth anniversary of the September 11th attacks, now recognized as a National Day of Service and Remembrance , we’ve come to understand that a powerful way to honor those who lost their lives, were injured and stepped up to help that day, is by volunteering to help our communities and our country.  It is in that spirit that the Mozilla Service Week , which begins on September 14, offers us a chance to use the Internet to make the world and the Web a better place for everyone.