Tag Archives: Open Source
Government for the People Makes You Special
“It turns out that the International Intellectual Property Alliance, an umbrella group for organisations including the MPAA and RIAA, has requested with the US Trade Representative to consider countries like Indonesia, Brazil and India for its “Special 301 watchlist” because they … Continue reading
Posted in Free Culture, Open Source
Also tagged Andres Guadamuz, Brazil, copyright, Copyright Laws, Free Culture, IIPA, Indonesia, intellectual property, IP, MPAA, RIAA, secretive anti-counterfeiting treaty, Special 301, Special 301 Watchlist, TPM, US Government, US Lobby Groups, Watch List
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WordPress Declaration of Independence
The WordPress Foundation is a charitable organization founded by Matt Mullenweg to further the mission of the WordPress open source project: to democratize publishing through Open Source, GPL software.
The point of the foundation is to ensure free access, in perpetuity, to … Continue reading
Free and Open Source from the Roots Up
“Free and open source from the roots up. “Open source” can be much more than a development methodology. For me, it also constitutes a world view that upends institutionalized notions of competitive advantage that saw their apex in the twentieth … Continue reading
Everything In Our Power
WordPress is a community of hundreds of people that read the code every day, audit it, update it, and care enough about keeping your blog safe that we do things like release updates weeks apart from each other even though … Continue reading
Posted in WordPress
Also tagged Community, Developers, open source participants, Partici, Security, Software Development, WordPress
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GPL Isn’t a Good License for Proprietary Software
Yesterday, I wrote about the clarification regarding WordPress Themes and the GPL (v2). Daniel Jalkut, who I featured as a personal WordPress Hero earlier this year, wrote one of the most interesting responses to “[WordPress] Themes are GPL, too“. Written … Continue reading
Posted in GPL
Also tagged Collaboration, Community, GPL, Participation, Proprietary Software, Software Developers, WordPress
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WordPress.com’s Job System – Cron for PHP in Distributed Environment
Colleague Demitrious Kelly (meech, Apokalyptik) earlier this month open sourced the (Unix process) jobs system he (primarily) has been developing for WordPress.com. Not that I really understand it, but “jobs” is described as
A fast, distributed, horizontally scalable system built upon … Continue reading
New Project to Find Movable Type Community’s Melody
Interesting development today in the blog publishing space with the announcement of Melody and the Open Melody Software Group.
Melody is a new WordPress competitor — bring it!
Based on Movable Type Open Source (MTOS), Byrne Reese writes “[the project's] … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging
Also tagged Byrne Reese, CMS, Content Management System, Jesse Gardner, Mark Carey, Movable Type Custom Fields, Movable Type Open Source, mtos, Open Melody, Open Melody Software Group, Open Source Movement, Serdar Yegulalp, Six Apart, Tim Appnel, WordPress, WordPress Foundation
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SourceForge Projects Moving to WordPress
Open source project hosting has long been a topic that interests me. I stopped recommending venerable SourceForge.net some years ago, as it’s proprietary stack (open source prior to 2001) became crufty and fell behind some of the newer and more … Continue reading
Daniel Jalkut, WordPress Hero!
Daniel Jalkut, the proprietor of Red Sweater Software, is the developer of the excellent Mac desktop blog editor MarsEdit. He is also a code contributor to WordPress.
I became acquainted with him about two years ago when he started submitting detailed … Continue reading
