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ReadWriteWeb ReadWriteWeb ReadWriteTalk Enterprise Jobwire About Subscribe Contact Advertise RSS RWW Daily by Email RSS RWW Weekly Wrap-up Home Products Trends Best of RWW Archives Six Apart Releases Statement About Opening the Social Graph Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / September 20, 2007 1:00 PM / 4 Comments « Prior Post Next Post » Blog software vendor Six Apart this afternoon posted a long

Million And Goes Open Source Written by Frederic Lardinois / June 28, 2008 11:00 AM / 6 Comments « Prior Post Next Post » The San Francisco based social groupware provider Grou.ps announced today that it has secured a Series A round of financing for $1.1 has also announced that it is open sourcing a restricted version of its code under the Affero Public License . ReadWriteWeb ReadWriteWeb ReadWriteTalk Enterprise Jobwire About Subscribe Contact Advertise RSS RWW Daily by Email RSS RWW Weekly Wrap-up Home Products Trends Best of RWW Archives Grou.ps

If switching to Chrome OS means giving up Thunderbird to use GMail, or giving up Openoffice.org to use Google Docs, or giving up Pidgin to use a web-based Google Talk, or giving up Evolution to use Google Calendar, we have reduced the influence and success of the free software desktop, not sealed its victory as Mobily suggests. Tags: Open Standard With every shift from a piece of free software to a web-based network service, we have moved from a situation where a user had control over his or her software — users’ of “traditional” free software have access to source and have control over the system on which the computer runs — to a situation where users have very little control over their software at all.

You get for free the service of advertising with your Gmail, which of course means there is another service behind, which is untouched by human hands, semantic analysis of your email … And you get free email service and some storage which is worth exactly a penny and a half at the current price of storage… What’s that got to do with open source? [5:15]: How much would someone have to pay before you would let them read your diaries, find out what your religious beliefs, political leanings or sexual preferences were, or where your children go to school? What many

open source R&D, licensing and commercialization of what the UNFCCC calls “environmentally-sound technologies (EST)” can provide an alternative to the proprietary intellectual property licensing vs. think that open source R&D, licensing and commercialization of what the UNFCCC calls “environmentally-sound technologies (EST)” can provide an alternative to the proprietary intellectual property licensing vs. compulsory (state-mandated) licensing of EST for diffusion and absorption of these technologies in deprived communities in both developed and developing nations

The 24 agencies required to comply with the Open Government Directive have begun soliciting citizen feedback on how to improve transparency, participation, collaboration, and innovation in government. Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, etc.), Agencies are using IdeaScale to facilitate two-way feedback with citizens. To date, over 700 ideas have been submitted ! Unfortunately,

ReadWriteWeb ReadWriteWeb ReadWriteTalk Enterprise Jobwire About Subscribe Contact Advertise RSS RWW Daily by Email RSS RWW Weekly Wrap-up Home Products Trends Best of RWW Archives Wikia Open Sources Social Networking - Focused Networking Now Open to All Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / February 28, 2008 10:22 AM / 6 Comments « Prior Post Next Post » Wikia , the independent commercial wiki site