Here and everywhere Here in France we have to face a very dangerous bill [fr] that may break some fundamental principles of the internet. It is a quick and dirty answer to those who claim that exchanging files on the net would lead (and in fact would have led) to big losses for music and [...]
In the open source community we see very efficient results emerging from non organized groups of people acting individually. Companies should fear this mechanism because it cannot be used inside organized entities. There are economical explanations of this for example in this book from Clay Shirky: Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations [...]
The Catalog syndrome The Catalog Syndrome is this special way of solving problems with only technology: we have a technology so no matter what the problem really was, it’s solved. Why spend a lot of time in analysis and thinkings about a problem when we can jump in a technology which is obviously made to [...]
One Task in Technical Architect’s Task List Amongst tasks devoted to the technical architect lies the choice of external solutions. This is a long process that involves the choice of suppliers, the creation of an evaluation grid, RFPs, work with suppliers relation teams, POCs and other evaluation prototypes, synthesis of all information and then presentation [...]
On March 2007, Tristan Nitot has written a word about Praxeme. Even if it’s a little word and an old news, it is important because Tristan is a great defender of open standards and Open Source community.
In 1999 when I joined an Open Source community to port a software on VMS systems, this essay was a must reading for all Open Source fans. It represented some kind of a first description of methods used in Open Source groups. At this time Open Source was seen as parallel system for software editing [...]
This is one of my favorite movies. Not for the poetry, I’m not very found of it. But for the main message: open-mindedness. When Prof. Keating climbs on the desk to explain how things that we know must be challenged by looking them from another point of view, I always have a special feeling of [...]
Since a long time (does it come from the beginning?) IT approach is centered on functions, those classical beasts that are considered essential when analyzing the needs for our systems. It is so important that the term does not only indicate an abstraction used to model the real but it is the retained term for [...]
A Praxeme Compliant Project Proposal In Praxeme document collection, lies a course with a case study about Application or Services a very little device like PDA or Netbook could present to give a very enjoyable user experience. Simple ideas may be great ideas and it’s the case here: the concept of many applications to manage [...]
A proposition of research studies about ontologies in the context of the Open Methodology Not a strange feeling Ontology is a philosophical concept that has taken an importance in computer science in the last few years and is actively debated inside new (or relatively new) domains such as Web 2.0, Semantic Web (aka Web 3.0) [...]
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