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08 Jan 22 : 20 | [CNET.com] Open source is liberal? Nah Open source is not a Democratic ideology. It's not a Republican ideology, either. It's just a neutral technology--or, if anything, a conservative ideal, making software a local affair. ... Source : Hardware.Info 31 hours ago |
05 Jan 21 : 30 | [Slashdot] ESA Embraces Open Source With New SAR Toolbox phyr writes "The European Space Agency (ESA) has released its Next ESA SAR Toolbox (NEST) freely as GPL for Linux and Windows. It provides an integrated viewer for reading, calibrating, post-processing and analysis of ESA (ERS 1&2, ENVISAT) and 3rd party (Radarsat2, TerraSarX, Alos Palsar, JERS) SAR... Source : Hardware.Info |
04 Jan 04 : 45 | [Slashdot] Open Source Victories of 2008 Meshach writes "Ars Technica has an interesting run-down on the major open source victories of 2008. Some, like Firefox 3, we can probably mostly agree on. Others — KDE 4 comes to mind — will be more controversial. And Mono 2? What else should be on the list?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.... Source : Hardware.Info |
31 Dec 21 : 30 | [Slashdot] The 10 Coolest Open Source Products of 2008 An anonymous reader writes "Open Source Software is about more than just the Linux operating system, and 2008 brought advances in the form of OpenOffice.org, IBM Lotus Symphony, Firefox and Android. But Linux is still the heart of the FOSS movement, and this year brought key developments in the... Source : Hardware.Info |
30 Dec 16 : 07 | [CNET.com] Open source in 2008: Everything but interest is up While some reports suggest that there has never been a better time for open source, other data suggests that it's no longer enough to rest on one's laurels. ... Source : Hardware.Info |
29 Dec 21 : 01 | [Slashdot] Campaign to Open Source IBM's Notes/Domino Ian Tree, an IT consultant from the Netherlands, has started a campaign to convince IBM to open source the code for Notes/Domino. Hoping for results similar to the push for Sun to open source Solaris which finally saw success in 2005, Tree makes the simple point that it wont happen until someone... Source : Hardware.Info |
24 Dec 21 : 07 | [CNET.com] Open source becomes paid software in 2009 Open source struggles between being free and making money. There is a happy medium for vendors and consumers. ... Source : Hardware.Info |
24 Dec 09 : 46 | [DigiTimes] PC makers conservative about Intel Moblin open source software... Although Intel signed an agreement with Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) to establish a Moblin (Mobile Linux) enabling center in October. The center was set up to provide assistance in developing open source software and applications optimized for Atom processor-based devices, but so... Source : Hardware.Info |
07 Jan 06 : 20 | [Engadget] HP's Mini 1000 Mi up for order That magical "Mi" shell for Ubuntu that HP's built for its new Mini 1000 netbooks is now available for order (as rumored), with configurations starting at $330 for the 9-inch version. Since it's a custom build, it'll take about nine days to ship, but the gift of commercialized open source is... Source : Hardware.Info |
14 Dec 13 : 45 | [Slashdot] Open Source Program Reveals Diebold Bug Mitch Trachtenberg writes "Ballot Browser, an open source Python program developed by Mitch Trachtenberg (yours truly) as part of the all-volunteer Humboldt County Election Transparency Project, was instrumental in revealing that Diebold counting software had dropped 197 ballots from Humboldt... Source : Hardware.Info |
16 Dec 17 : 07 | [CNET.com] Adobe: Open source is hard Company has been struggling to maximize benefits deriving from open-sourcing Flex, but these benefits will prove elusive until it displaces itself as center of Flex universe. ... Source : Hardware.Info |
13 Dec 08 : 45 | [Slashdot] HP Pushes Open Source For Small Businesses ruphus13 writes "HP finally begins to actively push open source in its products. From the post, 'HP has been quirky over the years when it comes to open source. It has been, traditionally, a company that supports open source — especially in larger enterprises... Wednesday, it announced two new... Source : Hardware.Info |
11 Dec 17 : 15 | [Slashdot] Best Open Source Alternatives To Enterprise Apps PeekAB00 writes "With 2009 IT budgets getting chopped down John Perez came up with this list of 25 best alternatives to enterprise applications (e.g DimDim over Webex, SugarCRM instead of Seibel, Zenoss over HP OpenView). John's list is somewhat eclectic. I am curious to hear what other enterprise... Source : Hardware.Info |
11 Dec 07 : 30 | [The Register] Titanium puts open source mettle against Adobe AIR Titanium puts open source mettle against Adobe AIR ... Source : Hardware.Info |
10 Dec 18 : 07 | [CNET.com] Whither open source in the land of leeches? Do open-source leeches help or hurt themselves by stripmining open source? ... Source : Hardware.Info |
05 Jan 11 : 45 | [Slashdot] Software Development Predictions For 2009 snydeq writes "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister lays out his development predictions for 2009. These include further struggles from Microsoft in retooling its image, a more open source mindset for Java, twilight for Sun, the Web as platform of choice, and a dearth of innovation due to dwindling... Source : Hardware.Info |
04 Jan 21 : 54 | [Engadget] Android tattoo girl Natalie "Kommodore" Thompson just joined the rarified ranks of Zune Guy and the BlackBerry Storm Cankle Man with her very own Android tattoo. While obviously a fan of the brand new mobile OS, she says she did it mostly to show her support of open source in general, and ol' Tux lost out to the... Source : Hardware.Info |
04 Jan 18 : 15 | [Slashdot] Perl Migrates To the Git Version Control System On Elpeleg writes "The Perl Foundation has announced they are switching their version control systems to git. According to the announcement, Perl 5 migration to git would allow the language development team to take advantage of git's extensive offline and distributed version support. Git is open... Source : Hardware.Info |
03 Jan 02 : 01 | [Slashdot] Linux In 2009 — Recession Vs. GNU RealityThreek sends this excerpt from an article at IT Management:"Pundits and business executives alike are predicting gloomy economic times for 2009. But when the talk turns to free and open source software (FOSS), suddenly the mood brightens. Whether their concern is the business opportunities in... Source : Hardware.Info |
31 Dec 07 : 45 | [TechConnect] Mozilla fixes more Thunderbird bugs Open source supporter Mozilla has now released a new version of the Thunderbird email client. The 2.0.0.19 update includes nothing but security fixes and tackles seven low and moderate-rated vulnerabilities that could lead to information disclosure, crashes and other nasty things. To download the... Source : Hardware.Info |
29 Dec 17 : 07 | [CNET.com] Worst open-source predictions of 2008 My biggest mistake was in thinking that open source was so different that it defied the laws of economic gravity. ... Source : Hardware.Info |
24 Dec 14 : 30 | [Slashdot] OpenSUSE 11.1 License Changes Examined nerdyH writes "Novell's recent openSUSE 11.1 release includes a new end-user license agreement modeled after Fedora's EULA, says Community Manager Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier in this detailed interview. Zonker says distributions should apply the 'open source principle' and standardize trademark... Source : Hardware.Info |
23 Dec 06 : 15 | [TechConnect] Wine updated to version 1.1.11 A new version of Wine, the popular open source software that enables Linux users to run Windows apps has recently been delivered. The 1.1.11 release features a heap of bug fixes and: - Numerous fixes for IE7 support. - Support for 64-bit cross-compile using Mingw64. - User interface support for... Source : Hardware.Info |
19 Dec 15 : 30 | [Slashdot] Toshiba To OEM Laptops With OpenSolaris ruphus13 writes to tell us of Sun's latest attempt to drive OpenSolaris adoption. The company has inked a deal to pre-install OpenSolaris on Toshiba laptops. "Slowly but surely, major laptop vendors are taking to the idea of shipping systems with pre-loaded open source operating systems. The latest... Source : Hardware.Info |
17 Dec 22 : 46 | [Slashdot] New Font Uses Holes To Cut Ink Use An anonymous reader writes "A Dutch company has taken an open source Sans Serif font and added holes to it to try and save on printer ink costs. The Ecofont is claimed to save up to 20 percent of ink costs, but it allegedly took the firm a while to perfect the ratio of the maximum number of holes... Source : Hardware.Info |
15 Dec 15 : 01 | [Slashdot] Samba's Jeremy Allison On Linux's Future TRNick writes "Jeremy Allison talks Ubuntu, why he loves Gnome, and the trials and tribulations of open source development in a wide-ranging interview on TechRadar."Read more of this story at Slashdot. ... Source : Hardware.Info |
13 Dec 15 : 45 | [Slashdot] BD+ Successfully Resealed IamTheRealMike writes "A month on from the story that BD+ had been completely broken, it appears a new generation of BD+ programs has re-secured the system. A SlySoft developer now estimates February 2009 until support is available. There's a list of unrippable movies on the SlySoft forums;... Source : Hardware.Info |
10 Dec 22 : 08 | [CNET.com] Window Snyder to leave Mozilla Popular chief security architect behind Firefox, Thunderbird and other open source project is leaving to work on an undisclosed new project. ... Source : Hardware.Info |
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