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Open Source Tax Credit

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. #permalink   Mar 17, 2006 1:10 pm  

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Open Source Should Be Fostered

Posted by Anonymous User at 2007-04-24 11:52 PM

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Facts about Open Source

Posted by Anonymous User at 2007-04-25 06:24 PM

Originally, the Open Source Definition "started life as a policy document of the Debian GNU/Linux Distribution. There are many inclusive licenses in the realm of Open Source Software. All of the licenses that are noted by this work have one feature in common which is "they each disclaim all warranties." The intention of this disclaimer is the protection of the owner of the software from liability connected to the software program." This is considered to be reasonable in that there is not sufficient revenue from the program for liability insurance and legal fees to be funded. Open source software is defined as software containing no royalty or other fee imposed upon the redistribution of the software; the source code is available; unlike with published essays or books, the right to create modifications and derivative works exists; it may require modified versions to be distributed as the original version plus patches, there is no discrimination against persons or groups contained in the software as well as no discrimination against fields of endeavor; all rights granted must flow through to and with redistributed versions; the license applies to the program as a whole and each of its components, and the license must not restrict the other software thus permitting the distribution of open source and closed source software together. Open source software is defined as: any software program that has a source code which is made available for its' use or modification as developers or other users see fit and it is generally developed in the manner of public collaboration and thereby made available freely. Open Source is also a certification mark that is owned by the OSI or Open Source Initiative and it is intended to be share both freely and even as an improved and redistributed version by others who abide by the distribution terms of the Open Source Initiative's Definition. This software is such that may be distributed or redistributed to other parties without any encumbrances of restrictions. Furthermore the source code must be available for the party receiving the software to possess the capability of improvement or modification of the software.

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Open source all the way

Posted by Anonymous User at 2007-04-26 01:32 PM

Recently, I heard about a new tool called VMware Converter. This free tool can be used to create a VMware image from a real installation of Windows. I thought it would be a good idea to convert my Windows partition into a virtual machine so that I could simply fire up Windows while I am running Ubuntu.

I booted into Windows, downloaded the VMware Converter, and followed the wizard. After a few hours of processing, I had a VMware image of my Windows installation. Everything appeared to be working, so I booted into Ubuntu and fired up VMware Player and started the new virtual machine I had just created.

Everything looked good as Windows started to boot inside the virtual machine. However, I quickly ran into a brick-wall. Licensing. Yuck! Windows told me that I didn't have a valid license for my operating system. What? This is the same legal copy of Windows that I was using just a few minutes ago! Apparently the change in hardware made Windows think I had illegally copied it to a new system. This is so frustrating. Some people have suggested that I call Microsoft to have them re-activate this OS, but I don't think I will do that. Instead, I will consider this another reason NOT to use proprietary software.

I shake my head in disbelief when I watch fellow colleagues spend hours of their time installing and configuring a "Licensing Server". Can you believe they even have such a thing? Those servers don't even serve a real purpose or function.

Last night, another fun time. I spent hours helping a friend who had recently "upgraded" to Windows Vista, and found many of his 3rd party applications, like Ares file sharing don't want to work with the UAC turned on. Seems they want to force users to their P2P filesharing apps - much like they did with IE.

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Posted by Anonymous User at 2007-04-29 11:10 AM

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Posted by Anonymous User at 2007-05-13 03:25 PM

Is this still in effect? Or has it gone down the drain? index

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