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Posted on March 30, 2010 - by admin

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Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and a staunch proponent of open source , with a penchant for free software, suggested as much in his LinuxCon keynote in which he argued that Linux ‘desktop’ developers need to be far better at …

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Posted on March 30, 2010 - by admin

Preprint: Open Source Electronic Resource Management System: A …

Librarians and strategists at Simon Fraser University (SFU) have collaborated with a team of middle-sized libraries to expand the open – source CUFTS Researcher suite of tools to include an Electronic Resources Management (ERM) system. …

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Posted on March 30, 2010 - by admin

open…: Italian Court OKs Preference for Open Source

Here’s a big win for open source : the Italian Constitutional Court has approved a law in Piedmont giving preference to open source , ruling that it is not anti-competitive: Just over a year ago, the Piedmont Regional Council passed a law …

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Posted on March 30, 2010 - by admin

How open source saved enterprise IT… — deadcelldeadfriend.com

Still, open – source vendors like Red Hat will win often enough to ensure that open source remains big business, and big for business, for many years to come. The risk is that while open source has transformed enterprise IT, enterprise IT …

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Posted on March 30, 2010 - by admin

KuwaitNet, Redington Value underline importance of open source …

Redington Value, the value-added distribution division of Redington Gulf, along with its Kuwait partner, KuwaitNet, discussed the importance of open source solutions to boost performance,…

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Posted on March 30, 2010 - by admin

Why Not? Open Source Lion-Tracking Collars In the Works

Want to help save some lions in Kenya? Well, help these guys make some open source lion-tracking collars, complete with GPS and GSM on board.

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Posted on March 30, 2010 - by admin

XOOPS among Top 10 Open-Source Platforms to Build a Social Network …

Xoops is an innovative extensible open – source platform that allows you to create a social network with everything you need. You can actually just begin by creating your own blog and then upgrading it to a social network through the use …

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Free Speech, Free Software Across the World / Open Source Bridge …

How does free software help defend free speech in repressive regimes? Danny O’Brien will draw from the records of the Committee to Protect Journalists to explore how open source can help those at the cutting edge of free expression

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IBM and an Open Source Milestone : Beyond Search

I think the buzz about open source is interesting. I had forgotten that IBM had grabbed the tailgate of the open source bandwagon years ago

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Posted on March 29, 2010 - by admin

fr watches weblogs » Blog Archive » The open-source imperative for …

Open source has been a big winner in the recession, given its ability to drive down costs. For those that think the proprietary world can easily follow suit, however, simply by giving away “express” versions of their software, …

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