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Friday, April 28, 2006

Net Neutrality Suffers a Blow
By: S. James Willis
The House Committee on Energy & Commerce has sided with the telcos and rejected legislation that would prevent a multi-tiered internet. There's still some hope that the Senate will be swayed by intelligent discourse instead of the well-heeled telco lobbyists. BusinessWeek has a good overview of the... Continue Reading

Friday, March 17, 2006

Open Source Tax Credit
By: S. James Willis
Thought-provoking piece from the Center for American Progress that was forwarded to me by a colleague. It's a proposal for a tax credit of 20% for open source developers. Read more here.

Economist Article on Open Source
By: S. James Willis
Andy Stein from Newport News forwarded an interesting article around to the GOCC listserve. The full article is here. Andy's commentary on the piece is interesting. Hopefully he'll post it here.

Monday, October 31, 2005

Google gets behind Open Office
By: S. James Willis
"We want to hire a couple of folks to help make OpenOffice better," Chris DiBona, manager for open-source programs at Google, told news.com, the industry website. Article here.

Wednesday, October 5, 2005

What Is Web 2.0
By: S. James Willis
Government agencies, with their directories full of rotting, static HTML docs, are ripe to skip right to the front of the class in the move to Web 2.0. Here's a must-read article from Tim O'Reilly.

Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Feds jump into podcasting
By: S. James Willis
FirstGov.gov has an index of Fed Government Podcasts. Anyone know of any state/local government podcasts?

Monday, September 26, 2005

FCW article on popular open source products
By: S. James Willis
Peter Quinn (CIO, MA) and I are quoted in this piece from Federal Computer Week.

Thursday, June 30, 2005

Rhode Island Govtracker Services
By: S. James Willis

[skip the announcement and jump right to the services]

Open Code, Open Content and Open Services are driving the success of Web 2.0 in the private sector. Government technology decision makers can learn a lot from this model. The emergence of Web 2.0 in the private sector has come by way of small, modular pieces of data wrapped in a brand and chained together through web-based services. Witness companies like Amazon or... Continue Reading

Monday, June 27, 2005

GCN on FOSS/Government
By: S. James Willis

A recent Government Computer News piece titled What's next for open-source software in government? features the GOCC. Some of the facts are bit muddled or out of date (e.g. the GOCC server is hosted up in the MA NOC now), but otherwise it's a good high-level overview of next steps for FOSS in government.

Friday, June 10, 2005

Preserving Innovation in Telecom Act
By: S. James Willis
H.R. 2726 was recently introduced in Congress. Here's a PDF of the bill.
 
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