Braden Cox & Nora von Ingersleben | June 2009 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 [...]
It appears that some mistakes will live on in Internet infamy no matter how many times you try to apologize and correct them. Red Hat’s Vice President of Open Source Affairs and president of the OSI Michael Tiemann posted an piece on the OSI Board Blog entitled “A Question of [...]
Oops. Last week, we put out a short little statement about the final publication of the European Commission’s White Paper on ICT Standardisation. It said: “ACT has always been very supportive of European initiatives that foster an SME-friendly environment. The White Paper is a positive step towards a more flexible [...]
For more than forty years, the software development community has leveraged huge increases in computer chip performance and steady drops in chip prices to give consumers what they want: better products at lower prices. In 1965, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore predicted that the number of transistors on a chip (essentially [...]
Phase three of the White House's Open Government Initiative ends this Sunday, and with it a tripartite experiment on receiving public comment about how to make government more open. This is of course an important and monumental milestone. Never before have we seen the intersection of technology and public input [...]