Manel Sarasa CEO of Openbravo, Interview at Open Source Meets Business

I conducted an interview with the CEO of Openbravo, Manel Sarasa. Openbravo is a free and open source software for enterprise resource planning. We are talking about the story of Openbravo, localization of the software and the business model of the company. Openbravo has currently more that 1500 downloads a day and all together more …

Johannes Loxen über Samba, Sernet und die Auswirkungen des EU-Urteils gegen Microsoft

  Stefan Koehler (Gonicus) spricht mit Johannes Loxen (Geschäftsführer Sernet Göttingen) über das EU-Urteil gegen Microsoft und Auswirkungen der Offenlegung von MS-Windows-Spezifikationen für Samba.   Videolink: video.google.com/videoplay?docid=649115257125887071 Einige Auszüge: „Samba ist das Produkt mit dem wir am weitesten da Draußen bekannt sind. Wir sind ein Unternehmen für Datensicherheit und Datenschutz ursprünglich. Wir haben uns 1997 …

What are free layers?

Some questions should be answered that could help to understand what free layers actually are. 1. What is the common idea behind free culture, free content, free software, free hardware, free infrastructures and a free economy? 2. What are working examples of free layered projects and why do they work and others did not? 3. …

Open Business – Spreadshirt and Jamendo

Some time ago Andreas Milles of Spreadshirt had a presentation at the Berlin Webmonday about his companies Open Logo Contest. They had developed a community that worked on the development of their new logo. In the end they actually took the logo design of a free designer, who they only knew through his contributions on …