On the line of my latest post about Linagora, a European data researcher recently published the results of a study concluding in that the European Community is saving 450 billion euros per year thanks to Open Source software. In the same orientation, the APRIL (French Association for digital freedom) published a study reporting the substantial […]
We are currently trying out this Fail2Ban rule on one of our server, to block simple (but very upsetting) DOS attacks on Nginx automatically (after 30 seconds). New filter in /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/nginx-dos.conf: # Fail2Ban configuration file # # Generated on Fri Jun 08 12:09:15 EST 2012 by BeezNest # # Author: Yannick Warnier # # $Revision: […]
Today I just saw one of the most beautiful examples of what our efforts (as a community of free software, standards, formats and knowledge evangelists) are all leading to. In short, I’m talking about the Wikipedia page in English for the OGG standard, which I’m publishing a capture of below. “So, what’s so special?” you […]
This year has taken a good start for us at BeezNest worldwide, and between writing around 3 times more offers than usually and launching new projects, we have been busy on a series of important missions that I’d like to take the opportunity to mention. Gallery 2 and slow disk accesses First of all, we’ve […]
Note: I’m talking about free, public, open-source software here, not that hacked open-source stuff that you just provide to your customers. Mostly, the difficulty of managing an open-source business is that there are even less good management people that know what free open-source software is than there are good management people at all. And then […]
To be a startup, a company has to be a product business, not a service business. By which I mean not that it has to make something physical, but that it has to have one thing it sells to many people, rather than doing custom work for individual clients. Custom work doesn’t scale. To be […]
The IRC channel of Dokeos now outbeats the Moodle channel both in terms of responsiveness and in terms of users (up to 40 users yesterday). This comes after I decided about a month ago that we should show a little more openness to the world as a group of developers, and should have a real-time […]
This article is incomplete and was first written in January 2007 for the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/354). This article is a list of interesting articles for FLOSS solutions marketing in general European Commission pushes FLOSS solutions forward as economic in the long run, despite major investment in terms of initial training: http://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/informatique/0,39040745,39366267,00.htm?xtor=1 http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/ict/policy/doc/2006-11-20-flossimpact.pdf http://www.indexel.net/1_6_4741__3_/15/89/1/Applications_en_ligne___70___des_entreprises_en_redemandent.htm?origin=900
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