Open source projects 'need more customer focus'
News Open source projects need to be more customer focussed if they are to succeed in the corporate marketplace, according to several companies attending the Holland Open Software Conference in Amsterdam this week.
[June 2, 2005, 12:40]
Missing GPL detail may make it harder to enforce
News Lucie Guibault, an assistant professor of intellectual-property law at the Institute for Information Law in Amsterdam, said at the Holland Open Software Conference in Amsterdam, that the GPL should clarify who is the author of the software to...
[June 1, 2005, 15:35]
OpenOffice denies rift with Sun
News There are some problems in the community and they are to do with transparency," Buijs said in a talk at the Holland Open Software Conference in May 2005. Arthur Buijs, the co-lead of the OpenOffice.org's Dutch native language project, said at a...
[February 10, 2006, 15:45]
Open source rival attacks 'terrible' Linux
News It is [always] IBM or Sun or HP open source," asserted Villasante, speaking at a debate on open source innovation at the Holland Open Software Conference in Amsterdam. Jesús Villasante, the head of software technologies at the EC's Information...
[June 17, 2005, 13:00]
Telecom standards face patent ambush threat
News We need to work out which standard to use, as a lot of 'open standards' are not that open," said von Gulik in a talk at the Holland Open Software Conference. Open source developers are unable to use any standards that involve royalty-bearing...
[June 15, 2005, 17:45]
UK charity builds Linux network on a shoestring
News Holland pointed out one advantage of this set-up is that software runs faster than it could if the clients were running as full PCs. Holland said the network was based on Linux Terminal Server, a free open-source add-on package for Linux that...
[September 16, 2004, 15:10]
IT giants accused of exploiting open source
News It is [always] IBM or Sun or HP open source," asserted Villasante, speaking at a debate on open source innovation at the Holland Open Software Conference in Amsterdam. Jesús Villasante, the head of software technologies at the EC's Information...
[May 31, 2005, 13:05]
Open source: Developing markets and anti-Americanism
News MERIT) in Holland conducted a study recently comparing licence fees with a country's gross domestic product (GDP) per capita. The state of Kerala is using open source software for "many" of its e-Government initiatives, Ajay Kumar, the secretary to...
[November 14, 2005, 11:00]
Events Diary
News Internet Service Provision 99: RAI Centre, Amsterdam, Holland. E-Tel '99: Wembley Conference and Exhibition Centre. Integrated Communications '99: Olympia Exhibition and Conference Centre. Linux and Open Source Software: Netproject, Commonwealth...
[December 19, 1998, 5:57]
