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Marc Lijour

Leadership Conference - Opening Opportunities, Freeing Learning | Open Source Schools - 2 views

  • state of the art in open technology for education
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    This conference has been designed by school leaders and others in the Open Source Schools' community to showcase to school leadership teams the best of educational free and open source software whether used alone or blended with proprietary software.
Marc Lijour

Open Source Procurement: Indemnity - Simon Says... - 1 views

  • Legacy procurement rules that insist on indemnity from open source subscription suppliers are an unnecessary barrier to open source adoption.
  • countries claiming they have a policy permitting or even favouring open source software. yet when you actually look at what they are doing, you find that there's still a huge amount of proprietary software being procured
  • typically discriminate against new approaches, which are the "friendly fire" casualties of unintended and unforeseen consequences
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  • Legacy procurement rules stifle innovation.
  • The reason you need contractual indemnity when you procure proprietary software is you have no other way to attempt to protect yourself against careless or malicious infringement of the rights you or others can reasonably expect to be protected.
  • A company selling a subscription around an open source project isn't actually selling the software.
  • The software is entering their customers' enterprises under the terms of an open source license, direct from the many community participants.
  • as long as there’s a sufficiently diverse community, this is likely to be sufficient risk mitigation.
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