Structured Methods

Gijs Hillenius wrote: A Dutch software engineer and an Irish political scientist have just published tools to help firms avoid violating open source licenses.

The website hosting the tools was unveiled here, yesterday.

The tool audits the contents of compiled software, explained Shane Coughlan, former legal expert at the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), in his video introduction.

The set of Python scripts read binary code and automatically compares it to source code. It extracts file systems and then starts to identify strings and search for known symbols. It feeds the results to a knowledge base and in a matter of minutes reports on the open source components it uncovered.

Eugene Lee wrote: Enterprise 2.0 requires much deeper thinking than merely copying Web 2.0 patterns, throwing in a little SSL and email integration, and charging money for it. In order for enterprise social software to enjoy long term success, vendors must recognize the importance of security, privacy, identity, IT policies and procedures, and architectural fit, etc. The entire team at Socialtext has deep enterprise pedigrees, and that experience has been key to the robust architectural and design choices we've made over the years.