Bibliography/Open Source Business Resource: Open Data

= Bibliography/Open Source Business Resource: Open Data =

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 * Title: Open Data
 * Editor(s): Dru Lavigne
 * Journal title: Open Source Business Resource
 * Date of publication: February 2008
 * URL: http://www.osbr.ca/ojs/index.php/osbr/issue/view/51

Description
On February 8, as the Open Source Definition and the Open Source Initiative entered their second decade, Bruce Perens published his reflections in State of Open Source Message: A New Decade for Open Source. He states his intent was to provide "another way of talking about Free Software, tailored to the ears of business people". Seeing that Gartner is predicting that "by 2011 at least 80% of commercial software will contain significant amounts of open source code", it would appear that the open source message has succeeded in reaching the ears of business people.

While awareness of open source code has reached a certain level of maturity, the innovation possibilities extend beyond the code itself. As you'll see in this issue of the OSBR, awareness of open "data" is still in its infancy, resulting in many untapped opportunities.

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