Relativism

Adaptivity Creativity Transparency

"Relativism is the idea that some elements or aspects of experience or culture are relative to, i.e., dependent on, other elements or aspects.".

Relative Foundation and it's objective

The Relative foundation targets stimulating the use of "open source" software. By promoting the use of the "General Public License (GPL)" software, the foundation wants to encourage technological development in particular for non-profit organizations who may benefit from open source software. The foundation will develop software for the profit as well as the non profit sector and by granting services related to providing and developing open source software, Relative will provide its own income.

Breaking open a market: an example from the world of photography

Fri, 06/11/2010 - 19:55 — bilgy_no1

Open source software is often contending in a market that is dominated by large corporations. Be it Microsoft when it comes to operating systems and web browsers, or Google when it comes to search engines. The same situation is true in completely different markets as well. Innovation can be a a way to overturn such a market division, and recently, two companies have tried to break open the interchangeable lens digital camera market. I'm talking about Olympus and Panasonic who launched the Micro FourThirds system in 2008.

Every end is a beginning for new possebillities..

Mon, 05/31/2010 - 21:42 — j0nathan

After more then five years suffering from parkinson's disesease I've been hospitalized for two months due to inadequate medication.

This does not mean the Relative Foundation will cease to exist, on the contrary, we have great plans for it..

A new blog(ger)

Mon, 03/01/2010 - 01:10 — pvollebr

There is nothing so beautiful and scary and promising as starting something new, and here it happens again. Blogging this time to create an interesting blogosphere around Open Source and why it should exist and must exist to live in a better world.

Practise what you preach?

Sun, 01/31/2010 - 17:40 — bilgy_no1

The concept of Open Source is generally seen as a good idea. But it's more than just a sympathetic concept and open source applications can offer substantial advantages over 'closed source' applications. So why is it that open source applications are only slowly gaining market share? A recent personal experience might provide some insight.

Introducing myself

Sun, 01/31/2010 - 17:32 — bilgy_no1

So I'm starting a blog... It's been two weeks now since j0nathan asked me to write a blog on relative.nl. Quite an honour to be asked, but what am I going to write about? Relative.nl is a community dedicated to the spread of open source, and I can wholeheartedly subscribe to that goal. But I'm not a software developer. So what do I write about?

The use of Open Source

Wed, 01/27/2010 - 04:13 — j0nathan

The quality of a product depends on the 'components' or other products its built with, using Open Source licenses you can create a better product by sharing your recipe so that others might improve it. Development costs can be covered by funds invested due to the need for your produce or support/guarantees you offer. In the ICT sector, this concept is already proven by Google for instance (Android OS).

Syndicate content