Developer says RP should contribute to open source community

PASIG CITY, Philippines -- The Philippine open source community should speak up and contribute to global open source projects, an Australian developer and expert said in an interview here.

Greg Wilkins, a lead developer of the so-called "Jetty open source servlet server" and a member of an experts group for the servlet specification from the Java Community Process, said the country is in a good position to take an active role in the open source community.

While Southeast Asia has been primarily a consumer of open source software, Wilkins said the Philippines is in a good position to contribute more to the open source software community because it understands different cultures.

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Good-bye Windows XP, Hello Open Source?

That’s it. I’ve had enough. Today I draw a line in the sand with me and Windows XP on one side and Microsoft and any of its new operating systems—including Vista—on the other, for ever more.

What got me started on this—the reason for this pledge—is simple: Yesterday Microsoft said again (but I believe it this time,) that it will stop selling Windows XP in January, 2009. WHAT? Why on Earth would a company discontinue its most stable release yet? Simple. Because it wants to sell more copies of Vista, which in my (admittedly inexperienced but reasonably well-read) opinion is inferior.

Hey Microsoft, since you won’t be using Windows XP any more, why not contribute it the open source community? There’s obviously lots of people who still want to use it. But does that matter? Of course not.

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SaaS collaboration tool goes open source

Users have the right to know what is under the hood, says founder

Christchurch’s Onlinegroups.net has officially launched its software-as-a-service for online collaboration. At the same time, the company has released GroupServer, the software that powers the service, as open source.
Onlinegroups.net aims to make online groups and sites easily available, without administration costs, says the company’s founder and CEO, Dan Randow.

The website, which has around 14,000 users worldwide, offers message boards, file-sharing, chat and discussion forums, suitable for virtual groups, inter-agency collaboration or hosted extranets, he says. Groups sit on a site of their own, which can be customised with logos, varying colour schemes and site introductions.

Public group sites are cost-free, while premium sites, with private work spaces, are charged with a subscription fee, says Randow. The main difference between Onlinegroups.net and other group collaboration sites, such as Yahoo Groups and Google, is that Onlinegroups.net is completely advertising-free, he says.




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