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Belated update on 2007 Open Source Think Tank, MIT “Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software”

I’ve been back home for a few weeks after an extremely busy trip to Sydney, San Francisco and London, and haven’t been blogging as often as I would like. The trip was busy but productive and I’ll hopefully be able to talk more over the next few weeks about what I got up to.

An important part of my trip was attending the 2007 Open Source Think Tank. Fabrizio Capobianco at Funambol, a far more prolific blogger than I am, wrote a nice round-up of what went down at the Think Tank. It was good to catch up with colleagues from across the open source industry, network and be present in a thoroughly stimulating environment - kudos to Andrew Aitken (Olliance) and Mark Radcliffe (DLA Piper) for putting the event together.

With the publication of the 2007 edition of the MIT Press publication, “Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software”, the 2005 edition is now available as a free PDF download. The publication is an excellent collection of papers covering Free and Open Source development methodologies, business models, licensing discussions etc. Definitely worthwhile downloading and reading (and perhaps worth purchasing the 2007 edition in hardback!).