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Big Data, Big Legal Trouble?
Big data has a range of practical and commercial benefits to businesses but can be fraught with privacy and legal issues. With a projected global growth at a rate of 40% per year, raw digital data is a resource which many companies are turning to in their quest for market advantage. Read More »
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Debunking Four Myths About Android, Google, And Open-Source
Several stories recently have spread misinformation about how Google licenses Android and its services. Here's the real story on how Android licensing works with open source and Linux. Read More »
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Five Things Successful Companies Know About Open Source
It’s often said that necessity is the mother of invention, and also that brevity is the soul of wit. In preparing for a recent trip to Samsung Electronics corporate headquarters in South Korea, I had a chance to test both of these theories. Read More »
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How To Choose Your Open Source Hardware License
It’s always tricky when you create something: a complex project, a commercial product or just an hack and then you must decide what license you should use for that, for releasing it to the public... Read More »
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LibreOffice 4.0: The Big Changes Will Be Under The Hood
There's a new major version of open-source LibreOffice office suite on its way, but developers, not end-users, will be the ones who will notice the real changes. Read More »
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NASA needs open source framework
Despite some well-known open source projects undertaken by NASA, the space agency lacks a framework for understanding the use and production of open source software at the agency level, say a clutch of computer programmers and technologists.
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Open Compute Pushes GPL-Like License For 'Open Source Hardware'
Facebook's open hardware effort adopts 'prescriptive' license requiring altered designs to be contributed back to foundation when sold Read More »
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Open Compute: The Perks Of Converged Infrastructure, No Proprietary B.S. | #OCPSummit
The fifth edition of the Open Compute Project Summit took place on January 28 and 29 in San Jose, California. Day one kicked off with Frank Frankovsky’s opening remarks. The Chairman and President of OCP Foundation presented the “Open Compute Project: 2014 and Beyond”, explaining to the audience what the event is going to focus on and what to expect from the following speakers. Read More »
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Prepare For Change! This Is Not Your Father’s Database Industry
Incumbent database vendors aren’t exactly struggling to make ends meet, but the smart ones know that resting on their laurels might get them there someday. That’s because open source technologies like NoSQL and Hadoop are coming after their business. Read More »
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