Archive for March, 2010

Posted on March 31, 2010 - by admin

New Application Could Make All Software 'open Source' » 9DOWNSOFT …

New Application Could Make All Software ‘ open Source ‘. March 31st, 2010 by Admin Leave a reply ». Researchers are working on a new application called Prefab that could allow users full customization of proprietary software

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Posted on March 31, 2010 - by admin

Who's Making Money From Open Source in the Cloud? | Phone.News-Mob.com

Most clouds of any appreciable scale are built on open – source software and, in fact, might not even exist without it. As to whether there’s any money to be made with open source , however, that’s up for debate.

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Posted on March 31, 2010 - by admin

Let's Unlock Our Data – Open Source Buzz

In his keynote at OSBC earlier this month, Tim O’Reilly talked about how data lock-in has become a serious challenge to open data. I believe we, and our governments, must even more persistently apply the principles of open source …

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Posted on March 31, 2010 - by admin

New Application Could Make All Software 'open Source' (PC World …

PC World – Imagine controlling Apple iTunes from inside Microsoft Word without having to switch applications. That could be possible, according to researchers at the University of Washington who are working on a project that could …

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Radio Open Source » Blog Archive » Nell Painter's History of White …

Nell Painter and I seem to have opposite takes on the great Ralph Waldo Emerson. In The History of White People, she makes Emerson “the philosopher king of American white race theory.” On the contrary, I say he was one of the inventors …

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Posted on March 31, 2010 - by admin

Texas Insider » SBOE UPDATE: Of Thomas Jefferson & “Open Source …

The third calls for Board approval of certification presented by the producers of the open – source materials. The certification provides information regarding its textbooks already on the list and the numbers of students not being …

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Posted on March 31, 2010 - by admin

Solaris Is Dead. Long Live Linux.

Hot on the heels of acquiring Sun, Oracle has changed the license for Solaris making it non-free once again. In a time like this, such a move can only be fatal and of course ultimately beneficial to Linux.

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Posted on March 31, 2010 - by admin

What If All Software Was Open Source?

“What if all software was open source ? Anybody would then be able to add custom features to Microsoft Word, Adobe Photoshop, Apple iTunes or any other program

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Posted on March 31, 2010 - by admin

Crashing Into Open Source (without a paddle): I got tagged – Open …

I originally got involved with open source projects as a student in Toronto doing a 4 year bachelor’s degree in Software Development.

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Posted on March 31, 2010 - by admin

MSDN Blog Postings » Blog Archive » The Common Opensource …

The biggest challenge to using/building/maintaining many Open Source applications on Windows, is that Windows does a lot of things differently than Linux and Unix . Different filesystems, command lines, APIs, user experiences … well, …

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