Martin Terre Blanche has an interesting post (found via edu_rss) on why he won’t be using Groove and what he thinks will (and won’t) become a viable alternative. His strongest argument boils down to lock-in and data exchange problems. He believes this to be a fundamental problem that is common to the current crop of […]
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Open Source, Cross-Platform Groove for Academia?
It looks like Penn State is modifying the LimeWire code base to create file sharing with digital rights management (DRM) and authentication built in. They will also add the ability to tie into specific university data repositories as well as adding collaboration tools. Sounds like Groove to me. The project, LionShare, will be ready in […]