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Open Source Meets Textbook Publishing - Much Cash Freed Up
What do you get when you take the open source approach and apply it to textbook publishing? Answer: a whole lot of happy students, thrilled at the chance to save a whole lot of cash... Read More »
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Open Source Misconceptions Fading in South Africa
South Africa may be up to five years behind the rest of the world in terms of vendor-supported open source software adoption, but the old misconceptions are falling away and adoption is picking up. Read More »
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Open Source Oak Ridge Graph Analytics for Medical Innovation Receives R&D 100 Award
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have received seven R&D 100 Awards in recognition of their significant advancements in science and technology. The honorees were recognized on Nov. 3 at the 54th annual R&D 100 Conference, sponsored by R&D Magazine. The awards, known as the "Oscars of Invention," honor innovative breakthroughs in materials science, biomedicine, consumer products and more from academia, industry and government-sponsored research agencies. This year's seven honors bring ORNL's total of R&D 100 awards to 200 since their inception in 1963...
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Open Source OpenStack ARMs the Cloud
...OpenStack now has the support of major IT vendors including Cisco, HP, Dell, AT&T, IBM, Red Hat, Canonical and SUSE. And while OpenStack has been an x86-based technology for the entire length of the project's history, that is now set to change.
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Open Source OpenStack Cloud Platform Turns 3
Leaders of OpenStack didn't expect the success they currently enjoy. Read More »
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Open Source Option Wins WA Cloud Deal
The Western Australian Institute for Medical Research will today take ownership of a private cloud solution built almost entirely of open source technologies to prepare for an influx of researchers over the coming weeks. Read More »
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Open Source Outer Space: How A Couple Of Guys Are Building A Homemade Rocket Ship For The Masses
Anyone with enough brains and balls can build their own rocket and fly it to space. Or at least that’s what the non-profit, open source space project Copenhagen Suborbitals wants to prove. Read More »
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Open Source Paradigm Could Swipe Biz From CROs: Beroe
However “open source” drug discovery – by which a contractor buys a compound with little data, shares that data with a sponsor and then provides development services for a fee – could be a way to plug the gaps, Pakaravoor told us.
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Open Source Persistence: Resistance Is Futile
Software developers routinely use open source components to boost productivity and improve the quality of their code. The problem for enterprises is that companies using open source must properly manage it and comply with its licensing, as with any third-party code...
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Open Source Product Development Most Effective When Social
Benetech started out in the 90s without even understanding the meaning of the term open source. They just "needed an easy way to interface with different voice synthesizers" to develop readers for people who are blind and "shared the code to be helpful." Sound familiar? Opensource.com started covering stories like in 2010 and they recur more often than you might think. Stories of people sharing the code to help others—but sharing code to get help developing better code. When code is open, a community has the opportunity to form around it...
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Open Source Project Builds Mobile Networks Without Big Carriers
Data centers, mobile phones, and the software industry have all been changed by open source. Are mobile networks next?
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Open Source Project Management Can Be Risky Business
Our digital lives are powered by programming philosophers who choose to develop their code out in the open. All programs begin with lines of instruction. When ready for execution these lines of instruction are converted to a binary format that the computer can execute. Open source programs are programs where the human readable code is accessible to anyone. This philosophy of openness and freedom has allowed these projects to impact the lives of everyone. The Linux kernel is the core of all Android devices, and nearly a third of all Internet traffic rides on just one openly developed project, Netflix...
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Open Source Projects Aren't Tax Scams
IRS is eyeing open source projects and Tea Party groups as possible tax scams, raising a real question: Do open source foundations need nonprofit status? Read More »
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Open Source Pushes 3D Printers To Success
[Desktop 3D printing is] definitely one of the hottest tech trends around. Open source DIY hacker engineers, artists, and craft designers have led the surge on the low end while higher-end models are already being used in rapid prototyping and short-run, custom manufacturing. Read More »
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Open Source Recognized As A Key Economic Pillar In European Union Study
A September 2021 study on the economic impact of open source software and hardware concluded that open source technologies injected EUR 65-95 billion into the European economy. This study is timely given the current rollout of the European Union's EUR 750 billion recovery investment, which has allotted 20% for digital transformation. Growing political efforts to understand and quantify the importance of open source in realizing EU digital sovereignty accentuate the study's significance. The European Union sponsored the study, which was written by Fraunhofer ISI and OpenForum Europe.
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