Archive for October, 2009

Posted on October 29, 2009 - by admin

EOS Blogs » Blog Archive » Fair comparisons of commercial …

The US DOD just published a memo on how to deal with Open Source software. And they make a good point that Open Source software should looked at the same ways as any other software

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Posted on October 29, 2009 - by admin

PEP-NET » Blog Archive » Managing opensource for e-participation

PEP-NET will be a European network of all stakeholders active in the field of eParticipation.

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PEP-NET » Blog Archive » Managing opensource for e-participation

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Google Will Open Source National Parcel Map « Fiducial Marks …

One approach is to commit to creating a national cadastre map, and then open source the project by giving yearly updates to the USGS National Map. What municipal GIS professional is going to argue against opening up their data to their …

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Red Hat To Push Open Source With EnterpriseDB Deal – News …

Red Hat has invested in open – source database vendor EnterpriseDB, to push further into IT…

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How to install Joomla 1.5 on a MAMP Server (HD) | Open Source List

In this tutorial I show you how to install joomla! 1.5 on a MAMP server in OSX 10.6 1. Download joomla www.joomla.org 2. Move directory into htdocs 3.

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Indigo: Open Source Cheminformatics for C++ and .Net

Dmitry Pavlov of SciTouch writes in to announce the availability of Indigo, an open source suite of cheminformatics tools. Indigo offer an impressive array of capabilities, including graph matching, cycle perception, structure rendering …

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Indigo: Open Source Cheminformatics for C++ and .Net

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451 CAOS Theory » The 451 Group's CAOS Open Source Adoption survey

Given current economic conditions there is considerable interest in open source software with many people wondering whether open source licensing can help users lower the cost of enterprise computing compared to traditional proprietary …

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451 CAOS Theory » The 451 Group's CAOS Open Source Adoption survey

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Landscape of open source games

I recently gave a presentation on the landscape of open source software in computer games at the Univ. Rey Juan Carlos, where I am currently visiting the Libresoft research group. My slides are available here

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Landscape of open source games

Posted on October 29, 2009 - by admin

Tech stuff for the slacker: Open source advocate calls for …

Open source advocate calls for Microsoft version of Linux ( – Software – Operating systems, non-Windows ): “A lot of open source advocates like to rage against the machine at Microsoft, but when a former Microsoft Research employee says …

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Posted on October 29, 2009 - by admin

Open Source: The Importance in the New Millenium | Web Design …

Open source signifies any program for which the source code is available for modification or change.

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