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Kolab Now: Learn, live, adapt in production
Kolab Now was first launched January 2013 and we were anxious to find out: If someone offered a public cloud service for people that put their privacy and security first. A service that would not just re-sell someone else’s platform … Continue reading
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Tagged Articles, Business, Collaborate in Confidence, Free Software, Kolab Systems, Switzerland
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Your opportunity for a front row seat: The economics of the Roundcube Next Indiegogo Campaign
Bringing together an alliance that will liberate our future web and mobile collaboration was the most important motive behind our launching the Roundcube Next campaign at the 2015 Kolab Summit. This goal we reached fully. There is now a group … Continue reading
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Tagged Articles, Business, Collaborate in Confidence, Free Software, Kolab Systems, Roundcube Next
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Applying the most important lesson for non-developers in Free Software through Roundcube Next
Software is a social endeavour. The most important advantage of Free Software is its community. Because the best Open Source is built by a community of contributors. Contribution being the single most important currency and differentiation between users and community. … Continue reading
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Tagged Articles, Collaborate in Confidence, Free Software, Innovation, Kolab Systems, Open Standards, Roundcube Next
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Pushing fast forward: Roundcube Next.
If you are a user of Roundcube, you want to contribute to roundcu.be/next. If you are a provider of services, you definitely want to get engaged and join the advisory group. Here is why. Free Software has won. Or has … Continue reading
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Tagged Articles, Business, Collaborate in Confidence, Free Software, Innovation, Kolab Systems, Microsoft, Open Standards, Security
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Key Update
I’m a fossil, apparently. My oldest PGP key dates back to 1997, so around the time when GnuPG just got started – and I switched to it early. Over the years I’ve been working a lot with GnuPG, which perhaps … Continue reading
Posted in Collaborate in Confidence, Fellowship, FOSDEM, Free Software Foundation Europe, Updates
Tagged GnuPG, Key, Update
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Groklaw shutting down.
Today is a sad day for the world of Information Technology and the cause of software freedom. PJ just announced she’ll be shutting down Groklaw. It’s hard to overestimate the role that Groklaw has played in the past years. Many … Continue reading
Posted in Collaborate in Confidence, Free Software Business, Open Standards, Political Commentary, Updates
Tagged Antitrust, Articles, Collaborate in Confidence, Free Software, Free Software Foundation Europe, Kolab Systems, MyKolab, PRISM, Security, Switzerland
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MyKolab.com: Building the Open Source Cloud service that was missing
In January this year we started the MyKolab beta phase and last week we finally moved it to its production environment, just in time for the Swiss national day. This seemed oddly fitting since the Swiss national day celebrates its … Continue reading
Posted in Collaborate in Confidence, Free Software Business, KDE, Kontact, Open Standards, Political Commentary, Uncategorized
Tagged Articles, Business, Collaborate in Confidence, EU, Free Software, GNU, GPL, Innovation, Interoperability, KDE, Kolab Systems, Kontact, MyKolab.com, NSA, Open Standards, Politics, PRISM, Security, Switzerland
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Life post-PRISM: Politics and Power Struggles
Following the disclosures about details on how the United States and other countries are monitoring the world there has been a global discussion about this subject that’s been long overdue. In previous articles I tried to put together what actually … Continue reading
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Tagged Articles, Business, EU, Free Software, NSA, Politics, PRISM, Security, Switzerland, UN
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Life post-PRISM: No More Business Secrets
After a primer on the realities of today’s world, and the totalitarian tendencies that follow from this environment and our behaviour in it, let’s take a look at what this means for professional use of information technology. Firstly, it should … Continue reading
Posted in Free Software Business, Political Commentary
Tagged Articles, Business, Collaborate in Confidence, Free Software, Innovation, Interoperability, Kolab Systems, Microsoft, NSA, Open Standards, Politics, PRISM, Security
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SFD Call to Action: Let the STEED run!
Information Technology is a hype driven industry, a fact that has largely contributed to the current situation where the NSA and GCHQ have unprecedented access to the global communication and information. Including for a very Realpolitik based approach to how … Continue reading →