Resources & Links

Channel: Mark Madsen RSS Feed for Mark Madsen

 

Displaying 1–13 (of 13)

Title
Coase's Penguin, or Linux and The Nature of the Firm

 Summary
 Yochai Benkler's article is a well-reasoned explanation of why open source works as a development and distribution model, the economics behind open source, and the broader concept of commons-based peer production outside of software.
IT Conversations Open Source Series

 Summary
 IT Conversations publishes a number of shows that deal with free and open source software. Talks, discussions, presentations and interviews about open source are featured.
Linux Watch

 Summary
 News, opinion and analysis on all things Linux and other closely related topics.
Open Solutions Alliance

 Summary
 The Open Solutions Alliance is dedicated to making enterprise-class open software solutions work together via certification, enabling integration and promoting cooperation between vendors.
Open Source Definition

 Summary
 The Open Source Definition (Annotated) is provided here.
Open Source Paradigm Shift

 Summary
 This article by Tim O'Reilly is based on a talk that he first gave at Warburg-Pincus' annual technology conference in May of 2003. Since then, Tim has delivered versions of the talk more than twenty times, at locations ranging from the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, the UK Unix User's Group, Microsoft Research in the UK, IBM Hursley, British Telecom, Red Hat's internal "all-hands" meeting, and BEA's eWorld conference. Tim wrote it as an article for his book on open source, Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software, edited by J. Feller, B. Fitzgerald, S. Hissam, and K. R. Lakhani.
OpenBRR

 Summary
 Business Readiness Rating™ (BRR) is being proposed as a new standard model for rating open source software.
OSA Blog

 Summary
 Open Solutions Alliance (OSA) blog.
OW2 Consortium

 Summary
 OW2 is a global software community with the goal of developing open-source distributed middleware.
Shared Software, Shared Processes

 Summary
 Dana Blankenhorn and Paula Rooney blog on open source.
The Open Road

 Summary
 Matt Asay's blog on the business and politics of open source.
The Open Source Initiative

 Summary

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit corporation formed to educate about and advocate for the benefits of open source and to build bridges among different constituencies in the open-source community. The OSI is the steward of the Open Source Definition (OSD) and the community-recognized body for reviewing and approving licenses as OSD-conformant. 

The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI)

 Summary
 TDWI provides in-depth, high-quality education and research in the business intelligence and data warehousing industry.

1