JohnMark.org Headquarters » open source http://www.johnmark.org/blog Just another John Mark production Sat, 24 Dec 2011 09:43:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 What is ‘Open Cloud’? http://www.johnmark.org/blog/2010/04/what-is-open-cloud/ http://www.johnmark.org/blog/2010/04/what-is-open-cloud/#comments Wed, 14 Apr 2010 23:13:00 +0000 admin I’ve read a bit of angst about cloud lock-in, a lot of weed pulling in the form of interoperability standards for the cloud, and a manifesto or two about ‘Open Cloud’. And in between, I’ve seen lots of interesting new tools for cloud computing, and lots of narratives about how the tools, combined with the formalization of use cases, pave the way for open clouds.

But what, exactly, does “Open Cloud” mean? And what role does open source play? Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of the Linux Foundation, likes to say that open source and the cloud go together like peanut butter and chocolate. But does open source necessarily mean open cloud, and vice-versa?

Read the complete article on OStatic.

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But what, exactly, does “Open Cloud” mean? And what role does open source play? Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of the Linux Foundation, likes to say that open source and the cloud go together like peanut butter and chocolate. But does open source necessarily mean open cloud, and vice-versa?

Read the complete article on OStatic.

]]> http://www.johnmark.org/blog/2010/04/what-is-open-cloud-2/feed/ 0 OStatic: Windows (L)users Are People, Too http://www.johnmark.org/blog/2009/10/ostatic-windows-lusers-are-people-too/ http://www.johnmark.org/blog/2009/10/ostatic-windows-lusers-are-people-too/#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:41:00 +0000 admin In the world of open source, there’s a narrative that has predominated since the time that the term open source was coined – that being the need for the underlying platform to be open source. We can tolerate proprietary software on an open platform, such as Linux, much more than we tolerate free software on a closed platform, like Windows.

For all of open source’s self-professed pragmatism, there is a noticeable gap between how Linux users are supported and how Windows users are supported. If we are truly as pragmatic as we like to think, perhaps the time has come to close that gap.

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]]> http://www.johnmark.org/blog/2009/10/ostatic-windows-lusers-are-people-too/feed/ 0 OStatic: Windows (L)users Are People, Too http://www.johnmark.org/blog/2009/10/ostatic-windows-lusers-are-people-too-2/ http://www.johnmark.org/blog/2009/10/ostatic-windows-lusers-are-people-too-2/#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:41:00 +0000 admin http://www.johnmark.org/blog/?guid=14dea045fb1175da1dc73419a83d7987 In the world of open source, there’s a narrative that has predominated since the time that the term open source was coined – that being the need for the underlying platform to be open source. We can tolerate proprietary software on an open platform, such as Linux, much more than we tolerate free software on a closed platform, like Windows.

For all of open source’s self-professed pragmatism, there is a noticeable gap between how Linux users are supported and how Windows users are supported. If we are truly as pragmatic as we like to think, perhaps the time has come to close that gap.

Link to full post on OStatic.com

]]> http://www.johnmark.org/blog/2009/10/ostatic-windows-lusers-are-people-too-2/feed/ 0 From OStatic: The Great Software Freedom Debate… http://www.johnmark.org/blog/2009/10/from-ostatic-the-great-software-freedom-debate/ http://www.johnmark.org/blog/2009/10/from-ostatic-the-great-software-freedom-debate/#comments Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:27:00 +0000 admin It seems that we can never quite get away from our industry’s version of “how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.” Namely, how open source are you? Or, as it is usually expressed: I’m more open source than you. I’m ‘the real’ open source, whereas you’re just badgeware/runtware/freeware/fauxpen source. Sun’s Simon Phipps has re-opened this debate by proposing a software freedom scorecard that the OSI can use to gauge the openness of open source participants.For the most part, I agree with Simon’s proposal, with some reservations, and I’ll explain why.Read the full post at OStatic.com

]]> http://www.johnmark.org/blog/2009/10/from-ostatic-the-great-software-freedom-debate/feed/ 0 From OStatic: The Great Software Freedom Debate… http://www.johnmark.org/blog/2009/10/from-ostatic-the-great-software-freedom-debate-2/ http://www.johnmark.org/blog/2009/10/from-ostatic-the-great-software-freedom-debate-2/#comments Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:27:00 +0000 admin http://www.johnmark.org/blog/?guid=63be33ebec5669fcfb59bb31b6d42719 It seems that we can never quite get away from our industry’s version of “how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.” Namely, how open source are you? Or, as it is usually expressed: I’m more open source than you. I’m ‘the real’ open source, whereas you’re just badgeware/runtware/freeware/fauxpen source. Sun’s Simon Phipps has re-opened this debate by proposing a software freedom scorecard that the OSI can use to gauge the openness of open source participants.

For the most part, I agree with Simon’s proposal, with some reservations, and I’ll explain why.

Read the full post at OStatic.com

]]> http://www.johnmark.org/blog/2009/10/from-ostatic-the-great-software-freedom-debate-2/feed/ 0 Subversion 1.6.0 Release Candidate available http://www.johnmark.org/blog/2009/02/subversion-160-release-candidate-available/ http://www.johnmark.org/blog/2009/02/subversion-160-release-candidate-available/#comments Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:52:27 +0000 admin The Subversion project released the first publicly available release candidate for the 1.6.0 release on Friday Feb. 20.  You can download the source for this release candidate from the Subversion project on tigris.org.  The release notes for the 1.6 release are still being assembled but you can follow the latest state of the document from the project website.

As we did with the Subversion 1.5.0 release, CollabNet is providing binary packages of this release candidate to make it as easy as possible for the community to evaluate the release and provide their feedback.  You can download binaries for Windows and Linux right now.  We will be adding Solaris and OSX binaries soon.

Follow this blog for more entries on specific features in Subversion 1.6.  There are several new features as you can see in the release notes.  The biggest new feature is arguably the support for tree conflicts.  This will need a separate post of its own to explain, perhaps more than one.  For those that cannot wait, I can only point to the folder with the notes the developers were keeping on the feature.  Not all of those files represent what finally went into the feature so keep that in mind and keep an eye out for more posts.

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