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The Open Source Industry of Australia (OSIA) has formally contacted Standards Australia, requesting that Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) format not be endorsed by the body as an ISO standard.
At first when discovering this I thought of it as just another geek toy, but after thinking about it for a while it came to my mind this is actually a very interesting subject.
Home automation may seem like something most interesting for lazy people or people with very big houses, but it can actually save lots of time and money.
"Again we had our fantastic venue - the Melbourne Town Hall - it really is a magnificent building, and can't be beat for a central location. We had members of the local Open source community..."
What will make a commercial open source project successful? Unfortunately, most people miss the two basic reasons why software succeeds or fails -- and doom years of development from the start.
The Open Business Foundation (OBF) operates on two premises: that the open source development community makes good business sense, and that small businesses can be more successful if they band together with each other to share resources of all kinds.
"The Open Business Foundation (OBF) operates on two premises: that the open source development community makes good business sense, and that small businesses can be more successful if they band together with each other to share resources of all kinds."
Not every open source project could support successful businesses. In part 2 of the series "An Open Source Business," we talk about what is required for an open source project to become a successful business.
Six days from today, the Ubuntu circus will start all over again. The release of version 9.04 is scheduled for April 23 and lots of bandwidth will be consumed that day as people upgrade or else download the distribution for the first time.
Most people used to the proprietary software world, with no experience in open source software, are amazed that anything gets done. (And lots gets done in the open source, way more than in most proprietary software companies!) And people new to open source are usually at a loss as to where to start.
