Articles tagged ‘choice’

Digital music is the future. Digital Rights Management (DRM) is the past.

National Linux distributions have special responsibilities. They should encourage a nation's open source activities as broadly as possible rather than present an isolated solution based on inevitably limited resources.

The government functions as both a facilitator and inhibitor of the growth of knowledge. To progress toward an Open Knowledge Society, the government must balance public and private interests by protecting the freedom of information as well as by reigning in overzealous intellectual property schemes.

Open Source Software (OSS) embodies a spectrum of evolutionary forces enabling market creation and change that can reward investment in sometimes surprising ways. Furthermore, Open Source's model of collaborative technology development can be applied to other technology and information fields such as biological sciences, manufacturing and knowledge creation.

BitTorrent, one of the most popular open source file-sharing protocols, is set to take online entertainment content distributors by storm.

Governments should utilize Information Technology (IT) procurement policy to help achieve transparency, competition, measurement and efficiency in the purchasing process. A policy which incorporates open source as a choice for solutions complements the role of standards. Open source and open standards together can help strengthen a framework for procuring and delivering solutions to meet the needs of government.

OSS and proprietary software are different sorts of animals. Evolution favors collaborators in OSS while preferring winners-take-all within proprietary species.

The adoption of OSS and Open Standards can improve governance and help provide citizen services fairly and transparently. The State of Massachusetts recently adopted the OpenDocument Format (ODF) setting a landmark precedent to support open standards for all document exchange between the state and its customers — businesses, citizens and other government entities.

During Matt Szulik’s visit to New Delhi’s LinuxAsia 2005 in early February, technologist Alolita Sharma caught up with him and he agreed to an e-mail interview, which was published by Alolita in the March edition of Linux For You magazine. Matt covered a range of issues, emphasizing Red Hat’s unwavering commitment to support the open source community.

Linux For You’s editor, together with technologists Robert Adkins and Alolita Sharma, met Michael Tiemann, vice president, open source affairs, Red Hat, on his first visit to India in October 2004. Tiemann, with a long string of successes – from being the 23 year old developer of the GNU C++ compiler, to co-founder of a very successful software company Cygnus Solutions, is today part of Red Hat’s founding team and eager to push the benefits of open source to the global frontier. In this wide-ranging interview, Tiemann shares his vision, enthusiasm and entrepreneurial spirit.