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OpenProj was 10th most-popular post here for 2007

By | December 10, 2007, 7:48am PST

Summary: When we talked to CEO Marc O’Brien he said a license had not yet been chosen. Eventually the Common Public Attribution License was chosen. This license was approved by the OSI in July.

Marc O’Brien of ProjityToday starts our wind-down of the year with a review of the top 10 posts of this blog, and number 10 was the launch of OpenProj.

OpenProj was downloaded over 150,000 times in its first weeks online, and is a product of Projity, a SaaS company which had been selling this software as a service before launching it as open source.

When we talked to CEO Marc O’Brien (above) he said a license had not yet been chosen. Eventually the Common Public Attribution License was chosen. This license was approved by the OSI in July.

The decision disappointed some open source advocates, who were otherwise favorably-disposed toward the software. Time will tell the impact this has on Projity’s effort to build community around OpenProj.

In the comments John Morrissey noted that Open Workbench is a good alternative.

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Dana Blankenhorn has been a business journalist for 30 years, a tech freelancer since 1983.

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Dana Blankenhorn has been a journalist, writer and part-time futurist for over 30 years.

At the present moment I run only a personal blog in addition to my ZDNet open source blog.

DanaBlankenhorn.Com has the subtitle The War Against Oil. In the past I have used it to write about political history, e-commerce, personal matters, some ideas related to open source, and The World of Always On, which is the idea of using sensors, motes and RFID to turn WiFi links into platforms for applications which live in the air.

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Dana Blankenhorn

Dana Blankenhorn has been a business journalist for nearly 25 years and has covered the online world professionally since 1985. He founded the Interactive Age Daily for CMP Media, and has written for the Chicago Tribune, Advertising Age's "NetMarketing" supplement, and dozens of other publications over the years.

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