O'Reilly Releases DocBook: The Definitive Guide Under the GNU License
by Norman Walsh, Leonard Muellner 09/10/2001 This change in licensing allows DocBook users worldwide to update, translate, and reuse the official reference documentation for DocBook. The XML sources for the book have been checked into the DocBook project at SourceForge. The Free Software Foundation's Bradley Kuhn said, "We believe that books on Free Software need to be Free (as in freedom). The first edition of the book was published by O'Reilly in October 1999. If you are an author of structured documents, and not a developer, Michael Smith says Don't Learn XML. DocBook: The Definitive Guide is the official reference documentation for DocBook in the open source community and elsewhere. O'Reilly has indicated that it plans to keep this book in print and they also plan to publish revised versions. Norman Walsh Norman Walsh is an engineer in the XML Technology Center at Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Microsoft just open-sourced 60,000 of its patents
The company has announced that it has joined the Open Invention Network (OIN), a community that is dedicated to protecting open- source software from patent lawsuits by technology giants like Google, IBM, and, yep, even Microsoft. The move by Microsoft is a surprising one since the company has always had a contentious relationship with the open-source community, something Erich Andersen, corporate VP and deputy general counsel, conceded in a blog post: We know Microsoft’s decision to join OIN may be viewed as surprising to some; it is no secret that there has been friction in the past between Microsoft and the open source community over the issue of patents. For others who have followed our evolution, we hope this announcement will be viewed as the next logical step for a company that is listening to customers and developers and is firmly committed to Linux and other open source programs. But Andersen goes on to say that Microsoft’s view of the open-source community has shifted:
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Guide de l’open source | Smile.eu
Et si nous vous disions qu’il existe un référentiel évaluant 350 produits open source… Et si nous rajoutions que ce guide est en plus disponible gratuitement ici ? Parfait, n’est-ce pas ? Pour vous qui souhaitez faire le point sur le meilleur des solutions open source, ce livre blanc sera une mine d’informations inestimable. Plébiscité par les DSI, ce guide synthétise et décrypte pour vous 350 solutions open source, réparties en 3 dimensions : infrastructure, applications, développement et couches intermédiaires. Toujours pragmatiques, nous avons aussi simplifié et classé ce référentiel en 50 domaines d'applications : outils décisionnels, CMS, GED ou solutions d’e-commerce, d’infrastructure... Un panorama complet, idéal pour vous aiguiller dans vos choix ! Retrouvez également tout le contenu du Guide de l'open source au format web sur le portail www.open-source-guide.com, le référentiel des solutions open source professionnelles.
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Peps - Pour chiffrer vos communications électroniques
Je suis sûr que vous connaissez tous la messagerie sécurisée ProtonMail, mais connaissez-vous Peps ? Peps est une solution open source développée pour le Ministère de la Défense Français (coucou Bernard !) qui permet d'échanger des emails, de collaborer sur des projets, de chater et d'échanger des fichiers facilement et de manière totalement sécurisée grâce à un chiffrement end-to-end (bout à bout). Pour rappel, un chiffrement de bout à bout permet d'éviter le stockage des clés de déchiffrement sur le serveur. Seul l'expéditeur et les destinataires peuvent lire les messages échangés. Peps fonctionne grâce à NodeJS, MongoDB et dispose d'une batterie d'API REST. Et comme ça utilise Docker, vous pouvez le déployer sur n'importe quel VPS avec 2 GB de ram en moins de 5 min, sans avoir besoin de grosses compétences techniques. Pour ceux qui veulent plus d'infos, le site officiel est ici et la documentation se trouve là : Merci à Anthony pour le partage !
Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software
When we call software “free,” we mean that it respects the users' essential freedoms: the freedom to run it, to study and change it, and to redistribute copies with or without changes. This is a matter of freedom, not price, so think of “free speech,” not “free beer.” These freedoms are vitally important. Tens of millions of people around the world now use free software; the public schools of some regions of India and Spain now teach all students to use the free GNU/Linux operating system. The free software movement has campaigned for computer users' freedom since 1983. Not all of the users and developers of free software agreed with the goals of the free software movement. Some of the supporters of open source considered the term a “marketing campaign for free software,” which would appeal to business executives by highlighting the software's practical benefits, while not raising issues of right and wrong that they might not like to hear. “Free software.” Fear of Freedom Conclusion
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