Julkisen hallinnon tietohallinnon neuvottelukunta JUHTA hyväksyi vihdoin perjantaina suosituksen avoimen lähdekoodin käyttämisestä julkisella sektorilla. Hyväksytty dokumentti menee tosin vielä viralliseen kielenhuoltoon ennen sen lopullista julkaisemista JHS-sarjassa, joten toistaiseksi asiasta kiinnostuneiden pitää tyytyä hieman aikaisempaan draft-versioon. Olin mukana kirjoittamassa suositusta, joka on toivottavasti osaltaan helpottamassa avoimen lähdekoodin käyttöönottoa julkisella sektorilla. Suosituksessa käydään läpi seikkaperäisesti, mitä asioita [...]

The second day of the service conference was very interesting. As a matter of fact, it was so interesting that I didn’t want to ruin my concentration with live blogging My own presentation went OK or at least I got some positive feedback afterwards. The slides are here. Me at Muirwoods: Driving near the airport: [...]

(This text will be published also in OSSI’s blog) Former Financial Times editor Andrew Gowers has published a very comprehensive study on the IPRs in United Kingdom, which is a product of extensive public consultations and careful analysis of received data. The review was commissioned by the Chancellor in the 2005 Pre-Budget Report to look [...]

Jonathan Zuck (the president of Association for Competitive Technology, ACT) recently compared the discourse on draft version of GPL v.3 to the 15th century Europe. He argued that Richard Stallman is the same for open source movement as Girolamo Savonarola, a Dominican priest, is to Renaissance. Girolamo Savonarola is famous for his fight against vanity, [...]

I’m watching curling (FIN – UK), which is surprisingly interesting – perhaps because for once Finland is leading. The sport is slow enough that there’s time for surfing, too. As a result, here’s quick review of interesting stuff around: Raymond T. Nimmer considers open source licensing profileration: “..But we can get to that realization only [...]

Hmm, it seems that Linus is backing from his previous hard line position. From Linux-Watch:  …the specific section that Torvalds has trouble with reads: “Complete Corresponding Source Code also includes any encryption or authorization codes necessary to install and/or execute the source code of the work, perhaps modified by you, in the recommended or principal [...]

It’s Friday afternoon. We’ll be looking after Mikko’s kids tonight. I’m scared – luckilly Pauliina is more expecienced in baby-sitting. The week has bring few surprises. Tieturi’s open source day was nice but did not have that much novel content. The most interesting news there was the problems pertainging Finnish spelling for open source programs. [...]

SFgate has today interesting article about personal finances of Oracle’s chairman Larry Ellison. Instead of selling Oracle’s stock, he has taken loan from different banks. A LOT of loan, to be precise: …Getting back to the scary days of 2000, when the tech stock market was imploding, a list of Ellison’s debts as of July [...]

It seems that the discussion about forthcoming GPL v. 3 is going to be blistering. First we had Linus dissing the new draft. Now John Caroll, who works for Microsoft, joins the chorus with his strongly-worded column: » The offer you can’t refuse – John Carroll: …People may wish to rethink that premise, as the [...]

During the three next months, the apartment will be deserted. We used the weekend to move the most important things out to the undisclosed locations. If everything goes alright, the renovation should be ready for the May Day. I’ll be posting pictures from the process here. In other news: eWeek has today a nice interview [...]