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The Open-Source BuzzCornell University The Cornell Daily SunHowever, today I will focus on a lesser-known but growing buzzword: open-source software. Before I explain what exactly qualifies software as open-source, ...
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Colorado State University and rSmart Host Webinar for Kuali Financial System ...SYS-CON Media (press release)By Business Wire rSmart, the provider of enterprise support for open source application software in education, today announced it will be hosting a webinar ...Colorado State University and rSmart Host Webinar for Kuali Financial System ...EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)all 14 news articles »
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At Open Source and the Cloud, IT opportunities and challengesCNETJust as open source has made it easier for developers to distribute software, the cloud has ushered in a new wave of consumption, ...
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VMware unveils experimental projects on new Web siteNetworkWorld.comVMware will never be confused for an open source company, but CEO Paul Maritz has said he believes it's important for VMware to create a community around ...and more »
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Is ad blocking the problem?CNETAnd yet, years and scads of free riders later, open source is bigger than ever. Did the market miss the memo that declared that open-source software had to ...and more »
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Sun's Open Source Chief QuitsInformationWeek27 and has itself been active in developing and distributing open source software. It also inherits from Sun MySQL, billed as "the world's most popular open ...Open source boss quits Sun OracleRegisterSun's open source chief leaves following Oracle mergerNetworkWorld.comDoes Oracle Losing Sun's Open Source Chief Matter?InternetNews.com (blog)Lexology (registration) -iTWireall 19 news articles »
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IntoMobile (blog)reMail rereleased as open sourceTECH.BLORGE.comWe decided that the best option was to open source the code, which is now available on Google Code as remail-iphone under the Apache 2.0 License. ...reMail iPhone app re-released under Apache 2 licenseArs TechnicaGoogle Open Sources reMailWebProNews (blog)all 25 news articles »
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Terracotta's Ehcache back-ends HibernateRegisterIf you want to make money, and perhaps especially in the open source software racket, ...Ehcache 2.0 Delivers Enterprise-Class Distributed Caching for Any Standard ...Business Wire (press release)all 7 news articles »
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New Project Puts Open Source Spin on Data Center DesignTechNewsWorldThat sharing and collaboration is "consistent with the collaboration, transparency and overall openness of open source software," he noted. ...and more »
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Truly Open DataO'Reilly Radar (blog)Open source software developers have a powerful set of tools to make distributed authoring of software possible: diff to identify what's changed, ...and more »
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My review of the open source software, telekast, for Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools.
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www.twitter.com You don't have to be a geek to want to save your money and download programs for free. Here are 5 of my quick picks for open source software. My site - www.nixiepixel.com You may be wondering; What is Open Source? Open source generally refers to software that is released with open source code and no restrictions on downloading, modifying or advertising the work. An open source program usually starts when developers publish their code where other developers can learn about it, download it, and play with it. Where do you come in? You can reap all the benefits of course by using the application for no cost to you. Here is where you can download the programs mentioned in the video (in order) Firefox: www.mozilla.com openoffice: www.openoffice.org GIMP: www.gimp.org Pidgin: www.pidgin.im Video Editing Software: kdenlive: www.kdenlive.org (for Linux) Avidemux: fixounet.free.fr (for Windows) Thanks and hope you enjoyed! Music: "Blondie" by Speedsound www.jamendo.com (used with CCL 3.0)
2009. 5m33s. English/Swahili with English Subtitles. Developed by Grameen Technology Centre and adapted for Africas low bandwidth conditions, MIFOS aims to improve administration for microfinance in Kenya. The free and open source software solution aims to provide a platform for microfinance institutions to manage the wealth of data that corresponds to the portfolios of a rapidly growing number of clients. This video considers how Mifos has been implemented in Kenya, with a focus on two institutions; the Jitegemea Credit Scheme and the Kenya Entrepreneurship Empowerment Foundation. It also considers how a HIVOS initiative, Mifos Light, has been implemented as a modification of Mifos, tailor made for situations where connectivity is not present. Connectivity Africa has been supporting Mifos since 2006. For more information: www.mifos.org http Produced by Rana Ghose and Connectivity Africa.
(April 3, 2009) John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla, and Mike Beltzner, Director of Firefox, share their backgrounds and perspectives on how the Mozilla project produces Firefox and other products: what works, what could be better, and what issues they've found themselves thinking about most recently. Stanford University: www.stanford.edu Stanford Center for Professional Development: scpd.stanford.edu Stanford University Channel on youtube: www.youtube.com
This quick tutorial will teach you how to put together a video complete with titles, transitions and effects! It's easy to learn the basics of video editing, especially in Linux! The program I used is called Kdenlive, It's like Sony Vegas, except it's free and open-source! www.kdenlive.org
Brazil: “President Lula is a nerd”Global Voices OnlineIn a symbolic display of support for Free Open Source Software, Lula brought relief and hope to Brazilian cyber-activists attending the International Free ...and more »
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Celebrating freedom with open sourceTechRepublicOpen source software has allowed me (and many others) freedoms, on many levels, that I never would enjoy with closed source software. ...and more »
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PC Games HardwareBrowser Users Can Celebrate an Independent's DayWashington PostWe can: The open-source code of Firefox and Chrome can be improved and reused by others. Safari, in turn, runs on an open-source framework that has itself ...Firefox 3.5 has a lot to offerHinduFirefox 3.5 and the potential of Web typographyCNET NewsFirefox in the Henhouse: New Browser Outstrips MicrosoftMinyanville.comITvoirall 25 news articles »
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BBC NewsHow open source is growing upBBC NewsThere is no doubt that free technologies, mainly open source software, are proving more popular both inside and outside the computer industry. ...and more »
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Netherlands adopts open-source softwareMetamorphosisThe Dutch government has set a deadline of April 2008 for its agencies to start using open-source software programs that anyone can modify and that work ...and more »
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CNET NewsOpen source to shape cloud computing, but not dominate itCNET NewsMatt is vice president of business development at Alfresco, a company that develops open-source software for content management. ...and more »
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Winning war won't secure peace for open sourceZDNet AsiaEven the neo-proprietarists, Microsoft and--most surprising of all--the government go out of their way to pay lip service to open source software these days ...and more »
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Government TechnologyIs Open Source Software More Secure than Proprietary Products?Government Technology"The problem with closed source solutions is there's a certain leap of faith associated with closed source software." Open source code lets users judge how ...and more »
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Chu: For Green Building Design, We Need to Go Open SourceEarth2Tech“We're talking about an open-source software platform,” Chu said. “You begin to develop a method, just as there is Windows or Linux…There is still incentive ...and more »
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GPL declines as open source moves to the WebCNET NewsOr perhaps developers simply don't care that much about open-source licensing qua licensing very much any more. The real value in open-source software is no ...GPLv3 Licenses Quadruple in 2009, but GPL Projects Drop by Five ...MarketWatchGPL loses ground in open-source developmentZDNet UKGPLv3 grows as GPL stumblesRegisterZDNet -InformationWeek -InternetNews.comall 16 news articles »
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Marketcetera co-founder and CEO Graham Miller and CMO Roy Agostino discuss major trends in high frequency trading in the aftermath of recent market turmoil. Topics include how open source is keeping pace with a rapidly changing, high-performance trading environment and Marketcetera's vision for its automated trading platform. For more information on Marketcetera, visit: www.marketcetera.com
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...He said with code open and more easily-corrected the oft-quoted "many eyeballs" effect users and consumers of open-source software may be more likely to get errors fixed through the community and less likely to pursue direct recourse to liability under the...
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quesomanrulz.com twitter.com - Hey Everyone, Quesomanrulz here with another tutorial about an excellent piece of Open Source Software. This software is called gparted, it's a 100% full featured partition management software. Just about anything you want to do with your Hard Drive, it can do. gparted is an Open Source application and is run off of a stripped down linux kernal. In this video you will learn how to download the CD Image and then burn it to a CD with the Open Source software infrarecorder. Links: gparted CD Image - sourceforge.net infrarecorder - infrarecorder.org
quesomanrulz.com - Hello Everyone and welcome again to another one my tutorials! In this tutorial I am talking about a futuristic Open-Source program called Tonido. Tonido is just about the coolest thing since the Internet itself. Tonido is an Online Web App that allows you to completely organize and share files with anyone you like. Tonido installs software on your computer (this software is cross platform by the way) and starts a local server that allows you to use it's excellent interface to upload files such as music, pictures, regular documents, and just about anything. You can then add the people you want to share with to your group and they can access you files and you can access theirs. You may be saying that other similar programs already exist but trust me, there is none as good as this. To get this cross-platform software and begin sharing and working together with your friends today head over to tonido.com and download the software as shown in the video. Thanks Guys and if you liked this video and this software please rate and comment this video and subscribe to all my videos! quesomanrulz.com for more. http for excellent vlog and tech tutorial videos
Talk by Eben Moglen with the Software Freedom Conservancy on "Free and Open Software: Paradigm for a New Intellectual Commons" given at the Law of the Commons Conference March 13, 2009 at Seattle University and sponsored by the Seattle Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild.
Ray Ozzie, Microsoft chief software architect, speaks to University of Washington professor Ed Lazowska about intellectual property and open-source software in the era of online collaboration. Ozzie was speaking during the Technology Alliance annual luncheon on May 1, 2009, in downtown Seattle.
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...developer and made a donation and got our feature added," he says. "We wouldn't have got that from Microsoft." Because open-source software can be modified by anyone, the quality does vary, Smith says. "The challenge is to find the right project and the...
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This session will analyze the latest trends in the open source market and community. It will examine the speed of product innovation, rapid business project delivery and significant cost benefits open source projects deliver in challenging economic times. - Slides: www.openexpo.ch
Can you run a modern business purely on Open Source software? Yes. This practical session looks at some real world problems, how real world businesses have solved them, and the financial and technical benefits they have discovered. - Slides: www.openexpo.ch
Panel discussion with Robert Sutor (IBM), Mark Lange (Microsoft) and Carl-Christian Buhr (EU) Many of today's software companies have an open source strategy of their own. IBM has been there for quite some time while other players like Microsoft only recently have been claiming their seat at the table. The same is true for the public sector where a similar discussion about open standards is gaining steam. What is it that drives this "move to openness"? What is the motivation of profit ...
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SYS-CON Media (press release)Sun CEO Reviews Company's Prospects for 2009-10SYS-CON Media (press release), NJA year later, he was issuing a purchase order to Sun for several of our software products. To have a little fun with him (and the Sun sales rep), I told him before he passed me the purchase order that the products were all open source, freely available ...
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HinduTechnological nirvanaHindu, India“Around 2000, the news media in the US decided to hide the Free Software movement behind the tame, docile philosophy called Open Source. Open Source doesn’t condemn anything, and shies away from the ethical issue of software subjugation,” he says. ...BJP supports free software, campaigners upbeat SINDH TODAYall 6 news articles
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IndUS Business JournalDuring financial struggle, IT can help reduce costIndUS Business Journal, MAConsider investing in software that can weed out duplicates and centralize storage. 4. Open Source Software: The use of open source keeps growing. It is not just about Linux. There are software packages available for just about every corporate need. ...
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New York Times BlogsSighting Nehalem and Dawn in the WildNew York Times Blogs, NYIn essence, it’sa supercomputer made of thousands of machines dedicated to pushing open source software to its limits and then refining the software for use on future machines built at various national labs. Like many government labs, ...
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The Tech HeraldOpen Source getting bad reputation on security says vendorThe Tech Herald, INby Steve Ragan - Mar 13 2009, 16:30 Ounce Labs, makers of Ounce 6 code analyzer for vulnerability scanning, say that recent criticisms surrounding the security of Open Source Software are off-base and, in some cases, counterproductive to security ...
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ZDNet UKOpen source at the business endZDNet UK, UKZDNet UK caught up with Positive co-founder and director Nick Mailer to discover the origins of his company's belief in open source and the downsides, if any, to running a purely free and open-source software business. Q: Stephen Fry has said nice ...
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Ars TechnicaFrench police: we saved millions of euros by adopting UbuntuArs Technica, MAA recent report has revealed that France's national police force has saved an estimated 50 million euros since 2004 by adopting open source software and migrating a portion of the organization's workstations to Ubuntu Linux. ...French police saved millions by switching to Ubuntu CrunchGearall 10 news articles
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