Open Source - Generic Tools - COSI 'Open' Government
COSI is an important endeavour, and this list it has posted may be both a little dated and hardly complete but it is nevertheless very useful. But let's consider the future. All at some point will be tablet or dumb terminal related; the beefy desktop installed into our lives by IBM and MSFT 30 years ago will dissipate in the glare of the future. Open standards and open data will be of paramount importance, else the apps that run on the tablets and terminals won't be able to communicate with each other and we'll be babbling, at some cost, too. Open source builds the implementations that express the data and allow it be manipulated. And some things will be open source but not all. It will depend upon circumstance, market interest, and everything else that makes for risk in the real world of commodities and communities.
Query: Where are the risk models for open source products? Let's say that I devise such a model; it need not be open source, of course, as I could charge people its use..... I think it would prove very popular. And so I wonder if there are not already such in circulation at VC firms.
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