[p2p-research] Fwd: March Issue of OSBR Available, open source mobile

[Michel Bauwens]

Bradley M. Kuhn is the Policy Analyst and Technology Director at the
Software Freedom Law Center. He briefly reviews the history of free software
in the mobile device space, focusing on both software and hardware. A review
of the available alternatives to-date leads him to conclude that users,
while able to access open code bases from major companies, are at the mercy
of these companies. For a number of reasons, true software freedom on mobile
devices is, as yet, an elusive goal.

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From: Dru Lavigne <dru at osbr.ca>
Date: Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 12:48 AM
Subject: March Issue of OSBR Available
To: Dru Lavigne <dru at osbr.ca>


Readers:

The March issue of the OSBR is now available in  PDF and  HTML formats. The
editorial theme this month is "Mobile" and the authors include:

Andreas Constantinou is the Research Director at VisionMobile. His article
discusses the importance of governance models to understand the dynamics of
an open source product, constrasting it to the better understood role of
licences. Using the mobile industry as an example, he demonstrates how
governance models can be used by open source sponsors to control the
development of open source products, and argues for more education and
clarity on governance models.

Jason Kridner is the open platforms principal architect at Texas
Instruments Incorporated. His article discusses the challenges and successes
in establishing a vibrant ecosystem around the BeagleBoard, a low-cost,
fan-less single-board computer. The efforts within this community have
allowed the BeagleBoard to become a versatile and powerful open embedded
device.

David Burgess of the OpenBTS Project discusses the project's experiences,
which will probably become the first case of a free software GSM basestation
in a public cellular network. The article focuses on the challenges of the
project, as well as the advantages of having followed the open source route.

François Lefebvre leads the Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting team at
Communications Research Centre, Canada. His article surveys CRC’s attempt
to increase collaboration and innovation in the field of mobile broadcasting
by developing and offering complete end-to-end free and open source software
toolsets.

Carl B. Dietrich, Jeffrey H. Reed, Stephen H. Edwards and Frank E. Kragh
discuss OSSIE, a university-based open source Software Defined Radio project
at Virginia Tech. OSSIE software has proven useful for rapid prototyping by
industry as well as for published research and education of hundreds of
graduate and undergraduate students. In addition to examples of OSSIE’s
successes, the project’s challenges and approaches to mitigating and
overcoming them are described.

Hal Steger, Vice President of Marketing at Funambol, inc., introduces the
cloud computing paradigm as a way to deliver mobile applications and data.
His article discusses trends that are driving the adoption of the mobile
cloud, important components of mobile cloud infrastructure, and the role of
open source.

Bradley M. Kuhn is the Policy Analyst and Technology Director at the
Software Freedom Law Center. He briefly reviews the history of free software
in the mobile device space, focusing on both software and hardware. A review
of the available alternatives to-date leads him to conclude that users,
while able to access open code bases from major companies, are at the mercy
of these companies. For a number of reasons, true software freedom on mobile
devices is, as yet, an elusive goal.

The editorial theme for the upcoming April issue of the OSBR is Cloud
Services and the guest editor will be Mike Kavis. Submissions are due by
March 20--contact the Editor if you are interested in a submission.


Thanks for the continuing interest in our work,
Dru Lavigne
Editor, OSBR
http://www.osbr.ca
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Open Source Business Resource
http://www.osbr.ca/ojs/index.php/osbr



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