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		<title>DataFlow new release</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As mentioned in an earlier post, DataFlow is an Oxford-based project in the JISC UMF programme building a data management infrastructure to help researchers manage their research data.
OSS Watch, in collaboration with Open Directive, are providing licensing, development, community and sustainability support to the project, which is now getting very close to a new release.
Developers have frozen the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://osswatch.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2012/02/03/dataflow-new-release/</link>
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		<title>Star pupils</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google has been in the news repeatedly over the last six months for closing down some of its many, many side projects. In general these are being mothballed in perpetuity, but in some cases, there is a transition plan. This is the case for Google Sky Map, and for our community it&#8217;s an interesting variation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://osswatch.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2012/01/27/star-pupils/</link>
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		<title>An open approach for the benefit of our ICT education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Education Secretary Michael Gove announced  that the current ICT curriculum, characterised as &#8216;demotivating and dull&#8217;, is to be replaced by a computer science programme. Gove said that the Programme of Study will be withdrawn and teachers are given freedom over what and how to teach.
Later that week, the Royal Society published the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://osswatch.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2012/01/21/an-open-approach-for-the-benefit-of-our-ict-education/</link>
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		<title>Version 2.0 of the Mozilla Public License</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following a two-year revision process based on feedback from Mozilla and the broader open source legal community, version 2.0 of the Mozilla Public License (MPL) was recently released. The licence encourage contributors to share modifications they make to MPL-licensed code, while still allowing them to create projects that combine MPL-licensed code with code under other [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://osswatch.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2012/01/17/version-2-0-of-the-mozilla-public-license/</link>
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		<title>Nginx and the Open Core model</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For years now the Apache HTTP Server has been by far the most widely used web server on the internet. Netcraft publish statistics on web server usage monthly, using a variety of metrics, and this month&#8217;s stats show an interesting change. While Apache HTTP Server is still miles in the lead, second place in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://osswatch.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2012/01/06/nginx-and-the-open-core-model/</link>
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		<title>Why collaboration is worth the investment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Collaborating in an open source project might take time, but is worth the investment. Especially when bootstrapping a project and with a small community, the overhead projects need to put into the collaboration can be significant. But the rewards can make this worth the effort, even when having as few as 3 collaborators. At TransferSummit, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://osswatch.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2011/12/27/why-collaboration-is-worth-the-investment/</link>
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		<title>FOSS Focus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was thoroughly drawn in by the Amazon &#8216;Black Friday&#8217; event last week, buying both a phone and a camera, against my better judgement and to the disgust of my bank manager. While trying to suppress my buyer&#8217;s remorse by searching the internet for all the marvellous capabilities of my soon-to-arrive devices, I noticed that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://osswatch.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2011/12/01/foss-focus/</link>
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		<title>Reusable widgets demonstrating the potential of open innovation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OSS Watch is currently leading a small development project called Rave in Context. This project is developing templates to easily write W3C widgets that encompass best-practices in ussability and accessibility out-of-the-box. It is not feasible or useful for small projects like this one to try and develop a completely new community around the software. Instead, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://osswatch.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2011/11/28/reusable-widgets-demonstrating-the-potential-of-open-innovation/</link>
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		<title>Carmack&#8217;s Reverse: a FOSS patent case study</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick one on the subject of open source and patents. John Carmack is well known in gaming circles as the lead programmer behind such classic PC and console games as Castle Wolfenstein, Doom (and sequels) and Quake (and most of its sequels). Carmack and his company id software  are the originators of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://osswatch.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2011/11/18/carmacks-reverse-a-foss-patent-case-study/</link>
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		<title>So. Farewell Then Flash Player Mobile&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Apologies to E J Thribb)
Adobe&#8217;s announcement that it will be dropping Flash Player for mobile devices from its future plans has been widely interpreted as a victory for Apple, and in particular their late Chief Executive Steve Jobs. Perhaps because of his essay Thoughts on Flash, the absence of Flash technology from Apple mobile devices [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://osswatch.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2011/11/11/so-farewell-then-flash-player-mobile/</link>
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