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What does Europe have against GPLv3?: My recent story on EUPL, the European Union Public License, drew some interesting reaction and this follow up question. What does Europe have against GPLv3? Roberto Galoppini, who first drew my attention to the issue, drew a response to his post from Patrice-Emmanuel Schmitz...; Tags: GPLv3, EUPL, Patrice-Emmanuel Schmitz, Galoppini, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2009-03-24

Alfresco agonistes: Alfresco agonistesThe race to zero is almost completeIt is getting harder and harder to see viable business plans for open source. The recession which were supposed to be so great for open source is having the opposite effect: Instead of customers rushing to the open source model with "paid support",...; Tags: COMPANIES, open source, Alfresco; Discussion threads 2009-05-17
Is the EU spending big bucks for the obvious from QualiPSo?: QualiPSo bills itself as a "unique alliance of European, Brazilian and Chinese ICT industry players, SMEs, governments and academics to help industries and governments fuel innovation and competitiveness with Open Source software."It's a think tank.Governments, academic institutions, and corporations in Europe, Asia and Brazil have all put in big bucks...; Tags: big buck, Buck, Dana Blankenhorn, Fact, QualiPSo, Think Tank; Blog posts 2007-08-28
Open-Closed Source Services Convergence: Recently,Â Peachtree ProÂ AccountingÂ was given away for free, making this commercial software look open source, from a financial acquisition perspective.Against this backdrop, I read comments by Roberto Galoppini, where he raises the issues of services in the open source world. Roberto makes this comment:Open Source franchising is aimed at delivering to the...; Tags: Packaged Services, Open Source, Consulting; Blog posts 2007-07-31

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