LinuxInsider: Open Art, Open Platforms and Open Applications

“I intended to begin the New Year with a nice blurb for my
friends at the Software Industry Promotion Agency’s (SIPA) open
source department, headed by a charming Englishman called James
Clark. They are going to launch an Open Source Art Contest and I
offered to put a spin on it in time for their launch at the
Thailand Animation and Multimedia event (which starts today).

“Instead of getting the information I wanted for the article, we
spent most of our time talking about other things, such as whether
Google is a good example of open source or not. Indeed, the
conversation touched on the very core of what constitutes open
source…”

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