TimburyDotOrg » Advocacy http://timbury.org Linux and Open Source Stuff Sat, 19 May 2012 21:32:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 German Open Source Experiment: Things Not Going To Plan http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/linuxjournalcom/~3/rahINZGFDlc/german-open-source-experiment-things-not-going-plan http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/linuxjournalcom/~3/rahINZGFDlc/german-open-source-experiment-things-not-going-plan#comments Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:38:24 +0000 Michael Reed

Recently, the Foreign Office of Germany made the announcement (translated news report) that it is migrating away from Linux back to Windows as its desktop solution. We've covered the concept of national adoption of Linux at a government level a couple of times before, but this is one of the first cases of a government moving back the other way. The most important action that community can take at this point is ask, “why?” more>>


]]> http://timbury.org/2011/03/02/german-open-source-experiment-things-not-going-to-plan/feed/ 0 Proposed “Ten Commandments” are very Open Source Friendly http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IBeenToUbuntu/~3/lf5UzwrFlVc/proposed-ten-commandments-are-very-open.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IBeenToUbuntu/~3/lf5UzwrFlVc/proposed-ten-commandments-are-very-open.html#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:35:00 +0000 Daengbo A composite of the GNU logo and the OSI logo, ...Image via Wikipedia
Ars Technica has a short article on the UN-backed Internet Governance Forum 2009 and its discussion of new rules for the computing world. Unsurprisingly, these proposed rules are quite FOSS-friendly since they are modeled on the early years of computing and the Internet, when RFCs were the norm if you wanted your tech to take off. Take a look:
  1. Independence of applications
  2. New applications can be added anytime that’s a core value
  3. Permissionless innovation
  4. Open standards
  5. Accessible and globally inclusive—anyone can use it
  6. User choice—I can choose what applications I use and where I go to with them
  7. Ease of use—I can use it in my language, I can use it in a device I’m familiar with
  8. Freedom of expression
  9. The ability to change rapidly
  10. Trustworthy and reliable is one we have to work on; it’s got to be a core value.
Your hardware should be unlocked and you should be able to add applications you want to use. Those applications shouldn't lock you into an upgrade cycle and you should be able to change whenever you want.

It looks to me like Open Source Software is already there. The closed-source world is the one that needs to catch up.


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]]> A composite of the GNU logo and the OSI logo, ...Image via Wikipedia
Ars Technica has a short article on the UN-backed Internet Governance Forum 2009 and its discussion of new rules for the computing world. Unsurprisingly, these proposed rules are quite FOSS-friendly since they are modeled on the early years of computing and the Internet, when RFCs were the norm if you wanted your tech to take off. Take a look:
  1. Independence of applications
  2. New applications can be added anytime that’s a core value
  3. Permissionless innovation
  4. Open standards
  5. Accessible and globally inclusive—anyone can use it
  6. User choice—I can choose what applications I use and where I go to with them
  7. Ease of use—I can use it in my language, I can use it in a device I’m familiar with
  8. Freedom of expression
  9. The ability to change rapidly
  10. Trustworthy and reliable is one we have to work on; it’s got to be a core value.
Your hardware should be unlocked and you should be able to add applications you want to use. Those applications shouldn't lock you into an upgrade cycle and you should be able to change whenever you want.

It looks to me like Open Source Software is already there. The closed-source world is the one that needs to catch up.


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