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What Have You Done for Freedom Today? Publish Date: Jul. 25, 2002
Sam Williams reports on the keynotes by Lawrence Lessig and Richard Stallman, challenging the open source audience to get more involved in the political process.
Rob Glaser on Helix Licensing Plans Publish Date: Jul. 25, 2002
On the same day his company pledged to integrate the open
source Ogg Vorbis format and audio codec into its newly open-sourced Helix
streaming media client, RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser commented on his
company's first tentative steps within the open source community.
I Hack the Body Electric Publish Date: Jul. 25, 2002
Bioinformatics gurus deliver an enthusiastic report for the future of
computer science.
Unleashing the Better Programmer Within: OSCON Attendees Get Self-Critical Publish Date: Jul. 24, 2002
Eat right and get plenty of sleep for better code. OSCON reporter Sam Williams attended a seminar titled "How to Do Software Development," and he examines the back-to-basics themes presented there.
RealNetworks Shows Up at the Open Source Party Publish Date: Jul. 22, 2002
RealNetworks, the Seattle-based streaming media leader (which is sending CEO Rob Glaser and top members of its engineering team to this week's O'Reilly Open Source Convention), announced this morning its plan to relicense certain components of its server-side technology under a Java-style community source license, along with a possible GPL-inspired license for its RealPlayer desktop-client software.
Linux in Government Publish Date: Jul. 15, 2002
Open source has flourished in places where users view software not as a political football but as a pragmatic tool. In this article, Sam Williams looks at the impact of open source software in government--both inside and outside the U.S.
Lisa Nyman Discusses Open Source in Government Publish Date: Jul. 15, 2002
Lisa Nyman is co-creator of QuickFacts, a service that lets visitors track down city, county, state, and national census data using only a single pulldown menu. QuickFacts uses Perl scripts, Apache Web servers, and a MySQL database to deliver increased interactivity at minimal cost. Sam Williams interviews Ms. Nyman about QuickFacts and open source in government.
A Timeline of Open Source in Government Publish Date: Jul. 15, 2002
A timeline of open source software use by governments around the world.
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