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Linuxworld - Open Source Solutions for Enterprise

Welcome to the new LinuxWorld.com, the open-source destination site for enterprise business decision-makers and implementers. LinuxWorld.com covers the opportunities, technologies and roles Linux (open source) plays in the enterprise IT department – filling the independent information void in the Linux market.

Site Editor, Don Marti, a well-known veteran Linux journalist, contributes to and oversees the robust site. Site staples include:

* Meaningful resources to aid technology adoption
* Expert opinion from key industry names
* Product news and analysis
* Research Centers – areas for in-depth information, includes Applications, Development and Management Tools, Networking, Security and four others
* Helpful how-to pieces
* Primers on emerging technologies
* Community exchange of ideas, experiences and best practices


LinuxWorld.com joins NetworkWorld.com, DEMO.com and JavaWorld.com under the umbrella of Network World, Inc., and is produced in conjunction with IDG LinuxWorld Conference & Expo.


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How about an Open Sourced office?

Open source software has a lot of options for the business world, alongside the home user bandwagon. Apart from the other generic features, Open Source softwares at times have a greater degree of customization as compared to their proprietary counterparts.

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The best sites for Open Source

http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/industryinfo.php
http://www.softwarefreedom.org/

Please bookmark these sites.

Open Source as a business model

Some how I love Open Source. How much do i love is a question.
But still want to do something on it. Current;y working on how it is successful as a biz model

Major Free Software websites

Slashdot.org, major community and news site with forum
Freshmeat.net, major software release annoumcement site
Advogato.org, the advocate site for free software developers


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Open Source Licensing and Governance

Earlier this year, arguments and debates raged about whether the open source model was doomed to fail in the 21st century economics of Software As A Service (SAAS). One thread of these discussions centered around the creation of a new type of license that could effectively preserve source code availability and author attribution while denying licensees some of the freedoms enjoyed by the authors, particularly the freedom to present a user interface distinct from so-called attribution.

I have weighed in on the question raised by so-called attribution licenses on license-discuss@opensource.org, but I have always been meaning to write down some thoughts on the flipside of those arguments, namely, how one existing license has brilliantly and effectively protected the three parties to the license--the authors, the users, and other developers--in spite of everything.

Full story : http://www.opensource.org/node/135

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Major organizations for Free Software/Open Source

Free Software Foundation
Free Software Foundation Europe
Free Software Foundation India
Software Liberty Association of Taiwan

Software in the Public Interest and its Debian GNU/Linux and Debian GNU/Hurd projects
Linux International
The Open Source Initiative
The XFree86 Project
The Free Standards Group, parent of the Linux Standard Base
The Apache Software Foundation
The GNOME Foundation
The KDE League
Affero, a company enabling fundraising for projects and causes in open source/free software.

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Major personalities in the Free Software/Open Source community

Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and the GNU Project. Profiled in Steven Levy's 1984 book, Hackers: the Heros of the Computer Revolution as the Last True Hacker, he started the Free Software movement in the 1980s and is considered by many to be the father of Free Software/Open Source.

Linus Torvalds, initial author and top maintainer of the Linux kernel, and possibly the most respected figure in the community.

Larry Wall, author of the popular Perl language.

Eric Raymond, author of the famous paper The Cathedral and the Bazaar, and responsible for the popularization of the name Open Source

Bruce Perens, editor of the Debian Free Software Guidelines and the Open Source Definition, the former considered by the community as the basic law.

Alan Cox, active contributor and maintainer of the Linux kernel.

Guido van Rossum, author of the Python language.

Miguel de Icaza, founder of GNOME.

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