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2004 - Open Source Year in Review


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by Blane Warrene

The year in review looks at some of the key developments in 2004 that could impact on a large scale AND more importantly squarely impact web professionals.

While there were dozens of people, programs and events that could be reviewed - I selected these as they first have a big impact on non-web professionals (namely current and prospective customers) that can have very positive results for your business.

As open source mainstreams to corporate folk, it becomes that much easier to build open source solutions into your proposals, opening up bidding for larger clients where perhaps software licensing issues kept you away in the past.

This entry was posted on Friday, January 28th, 2005 at 8:52 am, contains 103 words, and is filed under Open Source. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed. The views and opinions in this blog post are those of its author.

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  1. raka10 Says:
    January 31st, 2005 at 1:14 pm

    Interesting article on open source.

    I like the idea of Creative Commons creating a voluntary “some rights reserved” copyright rather than “all right reserved”.
    I appriciate who are working for entire community, not just for the pocket.

     
  2. realestate Says:
    February 1st, 2005 at 3:38 pm

    2004 is the wiki year in my opinion.

     

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Blane Warrene

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Blane is a writer and researcher focusing on Apple and Open Source technologies. Prior to this, he helped found a commercial software and consulting venture, and worked in the financial services sector as a director of technology and in varying technical roles. Blane maintains Open Sourcery: SitePoint's Open Source Blog.

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