City Of Vancouver Adopts Open Government Policy

June 11, 2009 by Krish 1 Comment

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Last month, City of Vancouver in Canada passed a motion mandating Open Data, Open Standards and Open Source in their government. Vancouver is the first city to adopt this strategy in Canada. This is a pretty good move and a morally right one too. A democratic government that runs on taxpayers money cannot use proprietary software or standards. It is ethically wrong. Slowly, but steadily, people are realizing the importance of having an Open Government with Open Data, Open Standards and Open Source as the foundation.

The motion passed by the City of Vancouver clearly identifies this in their motion Read more of this post

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RIM May Go Open Source

June 8, 2009 by Krish Leave a Comment

Speaking to ZDNet Asia, Jim Balsillie, co-CEO of RIM says

Symbian has made the leap to open source–would you follow?
There may be parts it makes sense to open source – BlackBerry has a rich and strong environment and it delivers on a set of promises. There may be some open source stuff that makes sense. Different parts of the app set makes sense to open source [but] it hasn’t been a big pressure point [for RIM].

Well, I am pretty sure markets will force RIM to eventually take the Open Source route. Let us wait and see. Read more of this post

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