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Open Source is political: Blows Against The Empire

Blog entry submitted by skeptic on Mon, 2009-03-23 20:32. [nid:1380]
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Open Source product groups are occasionally highly politically motivated - frankly some come from a socialist/anarchist viewpoint of wanting to bring down the evil capitalist system. Whilst I realise that capitalism has an image problem right now, open source tools will never prosper in business until they get aboard business.

Limiting the Crowd to their own time at their own expense: the open community's distate for commerce

Blog entry submitted by skeptic on Tue, 2008-11-11 19:15. [nid:1213]
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Recently we looked at the Folly of the Crowd: how in all but the largest of online communities the supposed consensus community content is actually created by a fanatical few. This is made worse by the online world's distaste of people making a living.

Microsoft ups the ante on ITIL by releasing MOF into the public domain

Blog entry submitted by skeptic on Tue, 2008-09-16 00:09. [nid:1144]
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Just what sort of pacts has OGC signed with the money engines at TSO and APMG, or is HM still her own master? When will ITIL be set free?

The real significance remains to be seen, but Microsoft's announcement that MOF 4.0 (Microsoft Operating Framework, a MS variant of ITIL) is now available under a Creative Commons licence to not only Share but also Remix(!) puts additional pressure on Castle ITIL's proprietary grip on the ITIL content. The explicit mention of ITIL in the announcement suggests to me this pressure is not accidental. MOF was already freely available for download, as also are COBIT and FITS, but this takes open content ITSM another step.

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