A brief introduction to the Knowledge Society[1] by Peter F. Drucker[2] from a speech at Harvard where he discusses the chances and drawbacks of a Knowledge Society.
[1] http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/ifactory/ksgpress/www/ksg_news/transcripts/drucklec.htm
[2] http://www.innovation-award.ca/about_peter.html
David A. Wheeler: “This paper provides quantitative data that, in many cases, using open source software / free software is a reasonable or even superior approach to using their proprietary competition according to various measures. This paperâ??s goal is to show that you should consider using OSS/FS when acquiring software. This paper examines market share, reliability, performance, scalability, security, and total cost of ownership. It also has sections on non-quantitative issues, unnecessary fears, usage reports, other sites providing related information, and ends with some conclusions. An appendix gives more background information about OSS/FS.”
http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html
It was the first time that the Special Interest Group Open Source met in Stuttgart/Germany at February 6th. ZZ/OSS has been there, as well as 20 other representatives from companies like MySQL or Oracle. It is the aim of this task force to foster the communication flow and knowledge transfer between the participants, as well as co-operations amongst those. The meeting was organized by bwcon.
Sandro Groganz 