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How “open source” is the Minnowboard?

This week, Intel announced the Minnowboard, a small embedded development board akin to the RaspberryPi, BeagleBoard and similar devices. The point that grabbed my attention is that it’s being touted as...

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BBC creates HTML5 TV appliance

The BBC R&D labs have recently been busy working on a TV prototyping appliance called the egBox. The idea behind it is to create a minimum viable product of a HTML5-based TV as the base platform...

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Leveling the playing field for open source in education and public sector

Last week I presented at ALT-C in Nottingham on the topic of open source in education and the public sector. This was partly to invite people to participate in Open Source Options for Education, and...

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Open Source Phones at MWC

Mobile World Congress is running this week in Barcelona.  While it’s predicable that we’ve seen lots of Android phones, including the big unveiling of the Galaxy S5 from Samsung, I’ve found it...

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Ohloh to be renamed Black Duck Open Hub

Here at OSS Watch we’re big fans – and users – of Ohloh, the site that helps you analyze open source software repositories, for example when evaluating the sustainability of projects. Since Black Duck...

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Kuali governance change may herald end of ‘Community Source’ model

For quite some time now at OSS Watch we’ve struggled with the model of “Community Source” promoted by some projects within the Higher Education sector. Originating with Sakai, and then continuing with...

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Locked into Free Software? Unpicking Kuali’s AGPL Strategy

Chuck Severance recently published a post entitled How to Achieve Vendor Lock-in with a Legit Open Source License – Affero GPL where he criticises the use of AGPL licenses, particularly its use – or at...

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New open source organisation launches in China

This week saw the launch of KAIYUANSHE (开源社), an association comprising both companies and universities with the aim of providing developers in China with education, tools and services to foster a...

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Open or Fauxpen? Use the OSS Watch Openness Rating tool to find out

Is your software open or fauxpen? This is the question that OSS Watch, in partnership with Pia Waugh, developed the Openness Rating to help you find out. Using a series of questions covering legal...

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Open Source Software Licensing Trends

This is a guest post from Jim Farmer, Chairman of Instructional Media + Magic Inc. Jim has also written a series of feature articles on open source for Informa’s London-based Intellectual Property...

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