Articles tagged ‘community’

IBM, C-DAC and IIT-Bombay team up to invest Rs 50 million in an Open Source Software Resource Center (OSSRC) in India.

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.

After more than twenty years, the non-English computing world of India is poised to explode in an exciting flurry of Open Source Software projects. What standards are needed? And how can progress be sustained?

Three IT powerhouses — IBM India, C-DAC and IIT-Bombay — entered into an alliance in October 2004 to set up the Open Source Software Resource Center (OSSRC), the first of its kind in India.

O’Reilly’s Open Source convention (OSCON) in Portland followed by LinuxWorld in San Francisco were like star spangled siblings each celebrating the visionary sparkle and practical promise of Open Source.

It’s not that freedom is so very right, it’s that slavery is so very wrong.

This author writes on the dynamics of the ‘Bazaar’ and the forces and conditions that influence it. The author contends that the Linux ‘Bazaar’ is not simply a loose collection of vendors and other proponents, motivated only by mutual recognition. The ‘Bazaar’ really operates on a larger stage. When forces of the larger stage organize around a dominant restrictive group, a reactionary force is generated in the remaining community. Over time, this reactive force propels various alternatives.