Caution: because I am talking about code libraries, this discussion will be technical - a combination of the worst of geek and lawyer-speak. Sorry.I had a discussion with a colleague yesterday about Apple’s choice of licenses used for open-sourcing of its Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) concurrency framework, which is a [...]
Today’s tough economy creates fiscal pressures for state and federal government budgets. Resourceful policymakers are increasingly looking for ways to reduce or at least maximize their information technology (IT) spending, and utilizing free software and services is one possible direction. But what does “free” really mean?
Vivek Kundra spoke to a 150+ crowd at a Northern Virginia Technology Counsel event on Saturday morning in Tysons Corner. He has his speech crafted pretty well at this point, but did have an interesting response to a question on open standards from someone who said he was affiliated with [...]
I attended the HIMSS (Health Information Management Systems Society) conference in Chicago earlier this month, along with upwards of 20,000 other people. Most of them are involved in the sales and procurement process, representing thousands of vendor companies and the health systems, hospitals, clinics, governments, etc., that use their products [...]
Over at the Innovators Network—ACT’s project that focuses on intellectual property and entrepreneurs—our pal Andre Carter has a post about that Carnegie Institute conference this week. (Morgan wrote about aspects of it here.) I think that Andre’s piece is particularly important because it drives home the points that we’re always [...]