Guest post by “Much has been said about open source projects – and open source platforms are now powering an ever-increasing share of the mobile market. But what is ‘open’ and how can you measure openness? As part of our new research report, VisionMobile Research Partner Liz Laffan introduces the Open Governance Index – a new approach to measuring the ‘openness’ of software projects, from Android to WebKit.”
Currently in the middle of their paper, that’s quite an interesting read so far. Please note that you don’t need to supply a *real* e-mail in order to download the document
So, what do they mark projects down for? LWN says that they penalize projects that use the GPL, claiming that it’s less “open” than permissive licenses. What other factors explain the Linux kernel getting only 71?
Well, you should probably see for yourself http : //www.visionmobile.com/rsc/researchreports/Open%20Governance%2 0Index%20(VisionMobile).pdf
Edited 2011-08-05 06:22 UTC
That’s a very narrow gap 😀 Should be OpenBIOS(open firmware) to Firefox.
This looks very much like a simplification of work done by Simon Phipps: http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2011/02/the-open-by-rul…
Thanks, I thought I remembered seeing something like this before.