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Posted on September 1, 2010 - by admin

SPICY IP: Open Source: Who and How Do I Hold Responsible (rather …

The commonality in most of the presentations seemed to me that the Open Source way of doing things was presented as not just one of the alternatives, but the only “alternative”, in fact the only way of doing things.

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Posted on September 1, 2010 - by admin

How to justify OpenOffice? | Open Source Schools

To be fair, I don’t think they are spending much on the MS Office licenses – the cost of the hardware is far more significant. However, I would still be interested in how other schools justify OpenSource when there is resistance like …

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Posted on August 30, 2010 - by admin

The future of government forges | opensource.com

So Rob Vietmeyer of DISA decided to borrow from the principles of the open source community and Internet governance. A more open and transparent development process at DISA could remove barriers to reuse, encourage collaboration, …

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Posted on August 30, 2010 - by admin

Timbuktu Chronicles: JoinAfrica an Open Source High-Speed Data Network

Fabfi, the open source platform for building large-scale mesh wireless network infrastructure, and Afrimesh, the platform-agnostic, open dashboard for network management, have joined forces to build a turnkey platform for deploying, …

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Posted on August 27, 2010 - by admin

The Guardian on switching to ODF | Open Source Schools

Liam calls for the Cabinet Office to strengthen its present position on open source and open standards by mandating ODF as a standards across the public sector, were this to happen I don’t doubt that we’d see Capita quickly make SIMS …

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Posted on August 27, 2010 - by admin

What's your idea of tomorrow?: Open source driving -August 27th

The momentum around the adoption of Open Source for the automotive In-Vehicle-Infortainment (IVI) environment got another couple boosts recently. The Genivi Alliance announced in late July that it chose the Linux Foundation’s Intel- and …

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What's your idea of tomorrow?: Open source driving -August 27th

Posted on August 21, 2010 - by admin

TransitDataFeeder: open source web-based GTFS creation and …

Roughly one month ago, the source code for TransitDataFeeder was released. TransitDataFeeder is an open source web-based application for creating and maintaining data in the General Transit Feed Specification. …

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Posted on August 20, 2010 - by admin

Open Source Code – How Compliant Are You? : TaxoDiary – The …

August 20, 2010 – Open source has become very popular in the corporate world as of lately. But where exactly does your own open source come from, and better yet, how compliant are you? With the expanding use of open source , …

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Posted on August 17, 2010 - by admin

Oracle Suit Against Android Threatens Open-Source Existence …

There’s no question that Oracle just hates the very ideaof open – source software. The suit against Google over its use of Java in theopen-source Android mobile operating system is really just part of apattern. …

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Posted on August 17, 2010 - by admin

Getting Ready for the End of Open Source | CTO Edge

Oracle is making moves to end open source in multiple areas. Continue Reading »

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