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Report from open Source Conference in Malaga
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Blog Entry | 0 replies1 resource | 19-February-2004 | Mike Malloch |
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Kel Harvey from Knownet is at the Open Source Conference in Malaga, Spain. he has sent the following report from the conference
Attendance at the Open Source International Conference, Malaga has been a pretty even split between the hardcore OSS community (read Linux, in particular the Debian community) and business - from entrepreneurs to corporates alike. It is also very much a home affair, with the vast majority of attendees coming from around Spain. Discussion in the larger presentations and plenaries has been divided between fundamental philosophical, political and legal debate about notions of freedom, choice & openness and the adoption of OSS by both corporates and governments. Many speakers have referred to the München model and understandably much has been made of the moves in Andalucia to ensure the general adoption in the public sector of OSS. The possible knock-on effects on the proprietary software industry (Ireland being cited as the world's No. 1 software exporting economy) of widespread legislation to enforce adoption has been noted. Technical discussion in the main sessions is pretty much limited to either OSS at the OS level or leveraging application software. Middleware was given a passing mention in one contribution only so far. Sun's approach is evangelical, taking the moral high ground over others such as IBM, Novell and HP, also represented on this morning's plenary, emphasising the broader view of the benefits of OSS for the developing world - again the emphasis is either side of middleware - however they do seem to be talking in the right direction - openness in standards, interoperability, royalty-free patents and focussing on education as the way forward. Again, the principle emphasis is on OSS in business use and the economics of the transition from proprietary systems to OSS. Unfortunately, translation hasn't been available in the side rooms where some of the more detailed contributions have been held - including unfortunately this morning's e-learning session, but I've managed to get hold of the transcript disk this morning (these had run out before I reached the registration desk yesterday...) |
