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Apache OpenOffice: Can I depend on software built by volunteers?

Apache Blogger — Thu, 10 May 2012 01:50:56 GMT

It is often said that open source is produced by volunteers. Can you really build your business using software managed by volunteers? Since Apache OpenOffice 3.4 has just been released I thought it might be good to use that project...

Is OpenOffice.org an Apache project yet?

Apache Blogger — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:43:26 GMT

Is OpenOffice.org an Apache project yet? Apache projects operate independently, but have common behaviour patterns, collectively known as The Apache Way. These patterns are commonly adopted (and sometimes adapted) by new open source projects and foundations seeking to duplicate Apache's...

Apache OpenOffice: Can I depend on software built by volunteers?

Apache Blogger — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 04:30:56 GMT

Worrying about the security of open source?

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:46:42 GMT

Almost every company today has a presence on the web. These websites are much more complex from yesteryear’s simple set of static pages. Today, a company’s site is a growing collection of support documents, forums, various search tools, user login...

Be lazy, be fast

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:25:42 GMT

At its best Open Source software is about accelerating the pace of innovation by enabling unconnected groups to collaborate across organisational borders. It is a software development process that allows people to freely share ideas and implementations among a community...

Apache: lean and mean, durable, fun

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:31:19 GMT

My current Fiat Punto Sport is the second Diesel car that I own, and I love those engines. Very smooth yet quite powerful acceleration, good fuel savings, a discount on state taxes thanks to low pollution, and it's very reliable...

Shaping the future with participation

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:19:01 GMT

Back in 2003 a small group of developers started working to turn their vision of an open source web search engine into reality. Based on Apache Lucene as core indexing component they added capabilities for crawling the web to allow...

Twitter, open source, DNA and bread making

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 08:09:32 GMT

Many commentators, myself included, point to open source as being a route to open innovation in software. Open source licences certainly facilitate the free flow of information and the sharing of resources across organizational boundaries. However, they do not provide...

Delivering on the promise

Mike Simons — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 19:13:52 GMT

The year 2010 was a troubled one for several open source projects. We’ve seen projects leaving hosting services in a hurry after finding their services blocked for unspecified amounts of time. People and companies fighting over ownership of project names...

Open languages are not required

Apache Foundation Blogger — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 06:51:42 GMT

There has been a lot of discussion over the past few months about Java, and whether it is an open language or a proprietary language. This has led to speculation about whether it makes sense to invest in Java, should...

Great software is like a great music teacher

Apache Foundation Blogger — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 10:31:18 GMT

I'm amazed at how many so-called "enterprise software systems" do not embrace the Web model in 2010, making them way much harder and much less fun to use than they should be. I have recently started making parallels between this...

The age of intelligence - for software at least

Apache Foundation Blogger — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 12:51:01 GMT

Despite the seemingly never ending noise coming out of reality show contestants and politicians these days, we are, in fact, in a new era of intelligence - for software. That’s right: in case you haven’t noticed, the machines are getting...

Open languages are not required

Apache Foundation Blogger — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 05:51:42 GMT

Are you an open source friend?

Apache Foundation Blogger — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 08:52:11 GMT

The Open Source and Free Software communities spend a lot of time talking about licenses. What the license terms mean, how they combine, which license is best, and many more. To be honest, most of these questions are rather arcane...

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What does IBM joining OpenJDK mean for Java?

Apache Foundation Blogger — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 09:37:06 GMT

This week IBM announced it would be supporting Oracle's OpenJDK. At first glance it seems like "Great!" Isn't it good that two big supporters of Java are getting behind a single open source project? Well, in my personal opinion, no....

Would you hire an open source developer?

Apache Foundation Blogger — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 10:57:10 GMT

As open source comes of age and becomes mainstream, more and more job postings include "open source skills" in their requirements. But do you really want to hire someone who spends their time exchanging flames with members of their own...

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Apache Foundation Blogger — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 13:42:16 GMT

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Come for the cost savings, stay for the flexibility

Apache Foundation Blogger — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:23:37 GMT

Free. It’s a powerful word, that word free is. It can make a five-year-old child light up (“free candy?”) and it can topple governments when expressed by the masses in a country deprived of it. In technology, the word free...

Open Source is about the differences

Apache Foundation Blogger — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:49:00 GMT

I read an amazing essay by James Bridle titled "On Wikipedia, Cultural Patrimony, and Historiography" where he argues about how "a more nuanced comprehension of historical process would enable us to better weigh truth, whether it concerns the evidence for...

Shared neurons and the Shadok's First Law of Failure

Apache Foundation Blogger — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:47:58 GMT

French-speaking fortysomethings might remember the Shadoks, a two-minute TV comics show that aired on ORTF when I was a kid. Those silly (and funny) creatures need to get to Earth as their own planet, on the left of the...

Shared neurons and the Shadok's First Law of Failure

Apache Foundation Blogger — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:47:58 GMT