Open Source
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Open Sources | InfoWorld | Gartner’s code reuse suggestion smells like open source advocacy…
Sounds more like SOA advocacy than open source advocacy to me.
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Technology News: Developer: The Blazing Trail of Open Source Development
Interesting compendium of views on progress being made in open source.
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OSDL: Patent Infringement Not a Real Open-Source Threat
“The issues of patents, indemnification and the potential risk of using open-source software took center stage at the keynote panel of industry leaders at the Gartner Open Source Summit here Sept. 28.”
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Java: Money, Freedom and Open Source @ ENTERPRISE OPEN SOURCE MAGAZINE
“The current polemic with Java and Open Source boils down to two important issues: money and power.”
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Overcoming hurdles to open source adoption – Network World
“As open source applications become increasingly stable, companies must learn to view the software as just another piece in a comprehensive application architecture that will include open source as well as closed source components.”
Standards
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Consortiuminfo.org – Standards and the Human Rights Crisis
Andy Updegrove approaches standards from another sense of the word and area of application.
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IBM developerWorks : Blogs : A focus on emerging software standards and technology
“A colleague of mine here at IBM just reminded me that there have recently been three new articles published on developerWorks that introduce XForms in detail.”
Odds & Ends
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I know there are other feed aggregators, but Bloglines is the one I have consistently stuck with for a long time now.
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Features : Radar Online – The Sage of Starbucks
“His mission? To drink a cup of joe at every Starbucks in the land. Here, the story of one man, over 12,000 coffee shops, and what happens when you down 29 Talls in a single day”
re: Gartner’s comments
You need to know that you have the rights to do what you propose to do (aggregate others’ components). Many countries, particularly the USA have weird commercial laws — copyright, patent, and anti-trust — which may inhibit you.
You need to know that you have the skills to determine whether the aggregation does what you want; possibly through testing, possibly some other way.
You need to know that you have a plan to maintain what you have built, for its design life.
And from time to time you might choose to start with a blank sheet of paper.
That all said, yes, we should knock away the technological impediments to it.