Tuesday January 23, 2007 |
Tuesday January 23, 2007 The duty to publish bites!I have been talking to some customers about Sun's policy to publish Solaris as CDDL, and found that some of their staff are 'balls out' fans of the GPL. The GPL places a duty to publish your source code if you have used GPL code and publish your binary. This is a very serious duty, about which I am not sure these fans are getting management or their legal departments approval. The register reports that British Telecom have decided to publish their home appliance code because they feel that otherwise they may be in violation of the GPL since their home hub appliance uses Linux which is published under the GPL. They are being hunted by http://gpl-violations.org/, whose page states The ultimate goal is to make vendors of GPL licensed software understand that GPL is not public domain, and that there are license conditions that are to be fulfilled. and Home Hub Blog comments on the act of publication. tags: technology software GPL GPL Violation BT 
(2007-01-23 22:30:54.0) Permalink modelling personal conversationsThe workshop was opened by Bertolt Meyer of Humbolt University, Berlin, who has recently published research into the fact that Knowledge Repositories don't work. Once he said it, it becomes obvious, have you ever found one that did. He and his collaborators insight goes beyond the view that the central data model consists of documents, activities, topics and most importantly people. It is necessary to transform the knowledge management system into a knowledge network consisting of people and their connections and reasons for connection. They have built an application proving these insights at ioe-skillmap.hu-berlin.de. The network visualisation functionality is delivered using prefuse, and the key data model insight is that the relationship between nodes possesses multiple attribute, particularly those of parent/child, similie/loose and vector. tags: technology graph theory network visualisation KMS knowledge ce2.0
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