New Zealand Open Source Society

06/02/2024

This is fire! https://mastodon.nzoss.nz//111886880619552977 Public money, public code.

This is fire! https://download.fsfe.org/videos/pmpc/pmpc_desktop.mp4 Found it on the EU-based Public Money, Public Code website: https://publiccode.eu/en/ We need this in Aotearoa NZ, too.

05/04/2021

Will the successful appeal of Google to the judgement for Oracle in their claim around use of the Java API set a precedent in future around the use of public API in free and open source software?

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Alphabet Inc.’s Google didn’t commit copyright infringement when it used Oracle Corp.’s programming code in the Android operating system, sparing Google from what could have been a multibillion-dollar award.

03/04/2021

Free software becomes a standard in Dortmund, Germany. Public money should fund Open Source Software where possible. What can we do to further encourage Government organisations in New Zealand to adopt Open Source?

LibreOffice is free and open source software, which means that it’s much more than zero-cost. Anyone can study how it works, modify it, and share those modifications with other users. (So the “free” is more about freedom than price.) There are many other well-known free software projects, such...

12/11/2020

What will the Python's leader joining Microsoft mean for Python? It recently passed Java in popularity, and has become the leading language for machine intelligence. Do we really want leadership of these major assets under the control of a single corporation?

Guido van Rossum, the creator of the Python programming language, today announced that he has unretired and joined Microsoft’s Developer Division. Van Rossum, who was last employed by Dropbox, retired last October after six and a half years at the company. Clearly, that retirement wasn’…

28/03/2020

Warren campaign releases software as Open Source.

We’re taking the important step of open-sourcing some of the most important projects of the Elizabeth Warren campaign for anyone to use.

21/12/2019

If security is important you can't get better than open source solutions which can be fully reviewed and audited. Security should never depend on obscurity. Even US Defense trusts it.

https://linuxsecurity.com/features/features/linux-an-os-capable-of-effectively-meeting-the-us-government-s-security-needs-heading-into-2020