Free and open source software across the EU

Hillenius, Gijs

doi:10.5033/ifosslr.v5i2.90

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“…Several public administrations or municipalities worldwide are planning to migrate or have already migrated to FLOSS or prefer open standards (e.g., Simon, 2005;Joode et al, 2006;Cassell, 2008;Ghosh et al, 2010;Karjalainen, 2010;Comino et al, 2011;Oram, 2011;Rojas and Polzer, 2011;Rossi et al, 2012;Hillenius, 2013;Bouras et al, 2014;van Loon and Toshkov, 2015;Silic and Back, 2015). Well known examples are the municipality of Munich, the Italian military, or the French Interior Ministry (URL 1).…”

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Using Free/Libre and Open Source Software in the Geological Sciences

D¹,

Schenk²

2017

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In the Geological Sciences, as in any other academic field, computers and software aided work are essential tools. Although Free and Open Source software is largely used in academic institutions for several purposes it is not yet state-of-the-art for the everyday usage. The usage of free and open source software is, besides the freedom of its ease of use, distribution, and modification, also recommended due to the increasing financial burden. There are many suited and effective alternative free software applications to the most common used proprietary commercial ones. Many common work steps can even be done entirely with the free operating system Linux. A selection of free software applications is compiled which are useful for geoscientific data evaluation and presentation. The provided information aims to lower the threshold of reservations against a potential migration and gives an overview about currently available alternative software useful in the Geological Sciences.In den geologischen Wissenschaften, wie auch in allen anderen Disziplinen, sind Computer, sowie softwareunterstützte Tätig-keiten, längst unverzichtbare Werkzeuge. Obgleich Freie und Open Source Software in vielen speziellen Einsatzgebieten verbreitet ist, wird diese noch nicht umfassend für den täglichen Gebrauch benutzt. Die Verwendung von Freier und Open Source Software ist, neben der Freiheit sie uneingeschränkt nutzen, verteilen und modifizieren zu können, auch wegen zunehmender budgetärer Einschränkungen zu empfehlen. Mit diesem Artikel möchten wir die geologische Gemeinschaft auf die vielen geeigneten Programme hinweisen, die als Alternativen zu den üblicherweise häufig benutzten proprietären, kommerziellen Programmen existieren. Viele alltägliche computergestützte Aufgaben können auch zur Gänze mit dem freien Betriebsystem Linux durchgeführt werden, ohne Einbußen in Funktionalität oder Professionalität befürchten zu müssen. Eine ausgewählte Liste geowissenchaftlich interessanter freier Anwendungen wird durch Referenzen ergänzt. Dieser Artikel soll über die Möglichkeiten freier alternativer Software informieren, die Zurückhaltung vor einer eventuellen Migration mindern, sowie einen Überblick über die aktuell verfügbare freie geowissenschaftliche Software geben.

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Using Free/Libre and Open Source Software in the Geological Sciences

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2017

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A Study on the Problems and Policy Implementation for Open-Source Software Industry in Korea: Soft System Methodology Approach

Kang

Shim

Pack

2015

The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies

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In knowledge based society, information technology (IT) has been playing a key role in economic growth. In recent years, it is surprisingly notable that the source of value creation moved from hardware to software in IT industry. Especially, among many kinds of software products, the economic potential of open source was realized by many government agencies. Open source means software codes made by voluntary and open participation of worldwide IT developers, and many policies to promote open source activities were implemented for the purpose of fast growth in IT industry. But in many cases, especially in Korea, the policies promoting open source industry and its ecosystem were not considered successful. Therefore, this study provides the practical reasons for the low performance of Korean open source industry and suggests the pragmatic requisites for effective open source policy.

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Free and open source software across the EU

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Using Free/Libre and Open Source Software in the Geological Sciences

Using Free/Libre and Open Source Software in the Geological Sciences

A Study on the Problems and Policy Implementation for Open-Source Software Industry in Korea: Soft System Methodology Approach

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