Archive for January, 2009

IT Pros Should Prepare For Open Source Government

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

Some people like open source software; others, not so much. But IT professionals on both sides of the issue may at some point gain a sort of power user to keep in mind in the form of the federal government.

As reported by Ryan Paul, “Sun cofounder and former CEO Scott McNealy says that the Obama administration has asked him to prepare a paper that will address this topic and provide guidance on potential open source adoption strategies.” (more…)

GNOME Foundation Calls For Collaboration For Support

Saturday, January 10th, 2009

Sugar Labs - the no-profit foundation behind the sugar educational software platform running on the OLPC - joined the GNOME Foundation as part of the GNOME Advisory Board.

The GNOME Foundation after welcoming on board the Mozilla Foundation, and more recently Motorola and Google, keeps bringing on board third parties.

Reading the press release it looks like if the GNOME Foundation wants to explore the economics of technological clubs. (more…)