Image via Wikipedia Couple of weeks back, Andrea Di Maio of Gartner wrote a blog post arguing that cloud computing is killing open source in the government. He says that the government agencies are finding cloud based alternatives to proprietary infrastructure, OS, office applications, etc. instead of the traditional open source software. According to him, [...]
Cloud Computing Is Not Killing Open Source Anywhere – A Response To Gartner
September 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Using Trademark To Protect Openness?
April 7, 2009 By 1 Comment
When I read the “open letter” by Sam Johnston, I was shocked to see his attempts to trademark a very generic term like “Open Cloud”. In my opinion, there is nothing open about using a suppressive tool like trademark, on a generic term like “Open Cloud”. This is definitely not in the spirit of openness [...]
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