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Open Source Biology
Could patent restrictions in biotech be compromising millions' health, safety, and standards of living when we should be benefiting from new diagnostic tests or improved medicines? Biotech information is rarely shared and certainly not in any optimal way. This needs to change.
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Open Source Biotechnology Platforms For Global Health And Development: Two Case Studies
Using a case study approach, the authors of this journal article examine the potential of open source biotechnology platforms for global health and development. Two initiatives relying on collaborative online platforms are analyzed: projects by the nonprofit institute Cambia and India’s Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) project.
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Open Source By Default?
“Over the last ten years, Open Source has become unremarkable. I think that’s a great achievement. We no longer argue about whether it’s secure or not, or whether it’s safe to use. We focus now on how best to use Open Source to get the best value for every tax dollar,” said Gunnar Hellekson, Chief Technology Strategist for Red Hat’s US Public Sector Group. Read More »
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Open Source Celebrates The Freedom To Leave
This week in San Francisco, the Open Source Business Conference unveiled its sixth annual Future of Open Source Survey. A self-selecting survey, its results very much reflect the interests of its sponsors, with the mere 740 respondents participating this year representing a 60 percent increase over the number who responded to last year's survey. All the same, the trends revealed in the survey provide some insight into what "influencers" are thinking. Read More »
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Open Source Challenges A Proprietary Internet Of Things
Linux Foundation believes it has the code for unlocking Internet of Things and bringing success Read More »
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Open Source Cloud and Middleware Company WSO2 Attracts $20 Million in Funding
WSO2 today announced that it has closed a $20 million funding round led by Pacific Controls, a global provider of Internet of Things (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M) solutions, and joined by Toba Capital. The investment comes in the wake of increasing demand for WSO2’s comprehensive, open source middleware platform for building, integrating, managing, securing and analyzing companies’ APIs, applications, and Web services—on-premises, in the cloud, on mobile and IoT devices.
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Open Source Cloud Platform OpenStack Gains Momentum
Rackspace, in partnership with NASA, began its efforts to create an open source platform for the cloud back in 2010. Unlike other standards efforts that were already underway, OpenStack provided actual software providers with the ability to create their own cloud products. Since that time, dozens of companies, like Dell, IBM, and Cisco, have joined the effort to create a common cloud infrastructure... Read More »
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Open Source Cloud Player Enovation Partners With Content Giant Alfresco
Irish open-source software company Enovation, which specialises in enterprise content management, has forged a partnership with US content management player Alfresco, which manages more than 4bn files and documents in the cloud and on mobile devices. Read More »
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Open Source Code And Business Models: More Than Just A License
As an organization or even individual there always seem to be questions when considering whether or not to make your project or code snippet open source. Read More »
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Open Source Collaboration Key to Healthcare Blockchain Adoption
Interest in healthcare blockchain continues to grow as organizations realize the potential data sharing advantages. Blockchain is not currently used in healthcare, but open source projects, such as Hyperledger, are working to develop blockchain standards that can eventually be used in healthcare. Entities are showing genuine interest in blockchain and are currently working on projects for future adoption, according to Hyperledger Executive Director Brian Behlendorf...
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Open Source Comes To Farms With Restriction-Free Seeds
There are now 29 kinds of plant varieties that are available under an open source license, reports NPR. On Thursday, a group of scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison debuted the Open Source Seed Initiative (OSSI), a set of seeds that can be used by anyone so long as they don't restrict use by others through patents or IP protection. Read More »
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Open Source Community Gathers For Red Hat Government Symposium
Open source continues to be used in new and innovative ways as federal agencies become more comfortable with the software development philosophy that helps solve common problems with common solutions, said Red Hat Vice President and General Manager of U.S. Public Sector Paul Smith. Read More »
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Open Source Competitions And Prizes #1
I recently read Future Perfect by Steven Johnson. The book articulates what is meant by a person being a “Peer Progressive” – someone with a set of values based on the power of distributed networks to solve problems (a “Baran Web”) as opposed to a more regulated, centralized mechanism (a “Legrand Star”). Read More »
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Open Source Data Solutions Offer Enterprises More than Cost Savings
Forrester predicted earlier this year that we’d see more open source data tools find their way into the enterprise this year, thanks in no small part to the fact that open source rules the Big Data space.
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Open Source Drug Discovery Gathers Steam
The unique CSIR initiative, now has over 6,000 registered participants working on an open source platform for the discovery of drugs of diseases such as TB, malaria and more. Read More »
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