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  • LiMo Foundation and GNOME Foundation Partner to Catalyze Further Open Source Innovation

    Alignment between these two key organizations will accelerate mainstream adoption of open source technologies and will empower open source developers worldwide

    THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS – 26 July 2010 – LiMo Foundation and GNOME Foundation today announced a key partnership with the objective of collaborating closely on open source software innovation. Starting immediately, LiMo Foundation will become a member of GNOME Foundation’s Advisory Board and GNOME Foundation will become an Industry Liaison Partner for LiMo Foundation. This development represents a natural formalization founded upon the significant use of GNOME Mobile software components within Release 2 and Release 3 of the LiMo PlatformTM.

  • Korea LiMo Ecosystem Association Holds Inaugural Meeting

    Cooperation amongst the top players in the Korean Mobile Industry to boost the Korean application developer ecosystem

    LONDON, ENGLAND and SEOUL, KOREA – 10 May 2010 – LiMo Foundation, a global consortium of leading companies from the mobile industry, today announced the formal inauguration of the Korea LiMo Ecosystem Association (KLEA) on May 4 in Seoul, which aims at catalyzing the Korean mobile application developer ecosystem and generating innovation upon the LiMo Platform. The event attended by dignitaries from the Ministry of Knowledge Economy, The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Samsung Electronics, SK Telecom, KT and LG Telecom amongst others, saw the election of Hoojong Kim from SK Telecom as the Chairperson of KLEA.

    KLEA will leverage the LiMo Platform to create LiMo World, an application development, publishing and distribution program that will act as a single point of entry for Korean developers wishing to develop for the LiMo Platform and will provide them with the necessary tools and localization support that will springboard them into the international mobile application market.

    "With KLEA, the leading Korean mobile companies which have a long history of innovation are uniting to unleash the apps potential of the Korean developer community for the benefit of a broader...
  • Open Letter to the Wholesale Applications Community

     

    Dear Industry Colleagues:

    Further to the public announcement of 15 February 2010, I am very pleased to write this open letter to the initiators of the Wholesale Applications Community on behalf of the Board of LiMo Foundation offering a) our full support, b) our committed participation, and c) our immediate practical assistance in a spirit of whole-industry cooperation.

    It is clear to us that the highly complementary areas of focus, shared belief in true openness and common industry vision create an exceptional opportunity for deep and long-term collaboration between LiMo Foundation and the Wholesale Applications Community to release unfettered innovation across the industry and fully ignite the mobile internet in a way that is compelling and life-enhancing to consumers everywhere.
Free Software vs Open Source? The Real Issue is Pragmatism
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Written by Peter Vescuso, Executive Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Black Duck Software   
Wednesday, 30 September 2009 08:02

 

Free software vs. open source software?  It’s a frequent ideological debate in the media.  Matt Asay, a CNET reporter and VP of Business Development at open source company Alfresco, had a good blog on this recently called “Free software is dead. Long live open source”.

Comparing free software to open source software is difficult and, fortunately for most developers, irrelevant.  One is more of a social movement (free software) and the other is more of a development approach (open source software).  The reason it’s mostly irrelevant to developers is pragmatism:  developers are busting their butts to create some cool new innovation and what they care about is finding good code they can use.

We’ve been talking about pragmatism and open source software for some time now at Black Duck. Pragmatism sounds like a dry topic, but for software developers and LiMo members it represents a smarter way of getting work done. Finding good code to use -- whether it’s described as free and/or open source, where it meets business requirements -- speeds development in today’s multi-source development model, reduces costs, and frees developers to be more creative. It’s not an ideological discussion - it’s a pragmatic decision to use the best code available, regardless of source, as long as it meets requirements for functionality, security and quality.

The trick, of course, is managing free and open source software in today’s multi-source development process.  Licensing, quality, security, and code provenance are areas of uncertainty that must be managed when using any software component. Process and policy are necessary, but not sufficient, to deal with these challenges; technology is needed to support decision making, process automation and governance of components over an application’s lifecycle.  We partner with LiMo Foundation to address these challenges.

Choosing “free software” vs “open software” is not a question a developer will often wrestle with, but rather “does this code meet my requirements” and “can I/my company comply with the stated license obligations?” For organizations using free and open source code in their development streams, ideology is a distraction, pragmatism is a best practice, and management is a necessity.

 

 

 
 
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