Open Source Update

This week in open source: G1, Firefox, Chrome - Ars Technica 22 Nov 2008

This week in open source: G1, Firefox, ChromeArs Technica, MA - 12 hours agoGoogle polishes Chrome with new features: Google has added a new bookmark manager to its open source Chrome web browser. T. […]

Source: "open source" - Google News |

Book Review: Intellectual Property and Open Source: A Practical ... - Blogcritics.org 22 Nov 2008

Book Review: Intellectual Property and Open Source: A Practical ...Blogcritics.org, OH - 14 hours agoIntellectual Property and Open Source: A Practical Guide to Protecting Code answers these questio. […]

Source: "open source" - Google News |

Open source and health care reform - ZDNet 22 Nov 2008

Open source and health care reformZDNet - 16 hours agoIt’s an open source stack. SQL at the bottom, Java in the middle, Adobe Flex in the application, and XML tieing it all together. ...Automating. […]

Source: "open source" - Google News |

EU Presents Ambitious Open-Source Library Digitization Project ... - TechCrunch 22 Nov 2008

TechCrunchEU Presents Ambitious Open-Source Library Digitization Project ...TechCrunch, CA - 21 hours agoEuropeana, which is still in beta, was programmed using only open source applications, Van de. […]

Source: "open source" - Google News |

Business.com Announces Open Source CloudBase at 1st International ... - SYS-CON Media 21 Nov 2008

SYS-CON MediaBusiness.com Announces Open Source CloudBase at 1st International ...SYS-CON Media, NJ - Nov 21, 2008"By inventing, developing and releasing open source technology like CloudBase, Busin. […]

Source: "open source" - Google News |

Open Source Data and an associated Open Source Data Definition 20 Nov 2008

Andrew J. Turner (http://www.highearthorbit.com) suggested to me that we need a term for user-created, user-entered, user-discovered, and user-curated data. Of course, if you change "data" to "code" y. […]

Source: Open Source Initiative blogs | nelson

MySQL Query Analyzer and open source business models - InfoWorld 20 Nov 2008

MySQL Query Analyzer and open source business modelsInfoWorld, CA - Nov 20, 2008The MySQL server has always been open source and we re-affirmed that many times over the years. To make money, we prov. […]

Source: "open source" - Google News |

Open-source Analysis Tool enables Rapid Annotation of Metagenomes - MarketWatch 20 Nov 2008

Open-source Analysis Tool enables Rapid Annotation of MetagenomesMarketWatch - Nov 20, 2008... The University of Chicago, and San Diego State University have developed an open source system for autom. […]

Source: "open source" - Google News |

New MySQL Query Analyzer for enterprise customers 19 Nov 2008

MySQL AB (now Sun's Database group) established a multi-pronged business model long ago: support contracts, dual licensing, and proprietary add-ons all play a role in making them one of the biggest su. […]

Source: O'Reilly News: OnLamp | Andy Oram

rSmart and Kuali Lead the Way for Open Source ERP in Education - MarketWatch 19 Nov 2008

rSmart and Kuali Lead the Way for Open Source ERP in EducationMarketWatch - Nov 19, 2008"With several KFS implementations going live next year, we are indeed on the cusp of a significant milestone fo. […]

Source: "open source" - Google News |

Open Source Data Protection from Zmanda Soars to the Cloud(s) in 2008 - MarketWatch 19 Nov 2008

Open Source Data Protection from Zmanda Soars to the Cloud(s) in 2008MarketWatch - Nov 19, 2008Company Builds Momentum with Open Source and Backup-to-Cloud Solutions, New Technology Partnerships and. […]

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OpenLiberty.org Releases First Open Source Identity Governance ... - MarketWatch 19 Nov 2008

OpenLiberty.org Releases First Open Source Identity Governance ...MarketWatch - Nov 19, 2008OpenLiberty.org, the global open source community working to provide developers with resources and support. […]

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Open Source and Sustainability, Updated 15 Nov 2008

Sam Folk-Williams recently blogged a response to an earlier blog posting I had written about Open Source and Sustainability. Over the past few months I've been having more and more discussions about t. […]

Source: Open Source Initiative blogs | Michael Tiemann

Beginners Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming with Perl 13 Nov 2008

Perl is a great language for processing text and automating tasks. It's also a fully-capable modern programming language, with effective modularization and object oriented capabilities. Though that so. […]

Source: O'Reilly News: OnLamp | chromatic

PyMOTW: array 10 Nov 2008

The array module defines an efficient sequence data structure that works like a standard Python list.

Source: O'Reilly News: OnLamp | Doug Hellmann

Open Source -- Can It Innovate? 10 Nov 2008

There's an argument commonly heard these days that open-source software is all very well for infrastructure or commodity software where the requirements are well-established, but that it can't really. […]

Source: Open Source Initiative blogs | esr

The practical problem with software patents 10 Nov 2008

Venkatesh Hariharan recently wrote an article titled The practical problem with software patents, a subject near and dear to my heart. He draws on the same research that I have cited in the past, the. […]

Source: Open Source Initiative blogs | Michael Tiemann

Knight Foundation News Challenge Update 7 Nov 2008

Nearly 2,000 applications were filed for the Knight Foundation 2009 News Challenge. As you may recall, the Knight Foundation has committed to fund $25M over five years to projects that: Use or create. […]

Source: Open Source Initiative blogs | Michael Tiemann

Barack Obama proves the power of Open Source 6 Nov 2008

It would be a bit of a stretch to claim that Barack Obama won the 2008 election because his website ran open source software while John McCain's ran on proprietary software. But what is not a stretch. […]

Source: Open Source Initiative blogs | Michael Tiemann

PyMOTW: struct 3 Nov 2008

The struct module includes functions for converting between strings of bytes and native Python data types such as numbers and strings. Here's how to use it.

Source: O'Reilly News: OnLamp | Doug Hellmann

Don't kill your television--study it! 3 Nov 2008

I just learned about a link that's apparently been live for a while, but it's new to me: http://sony.com/linux. Following that link one level to Television you'll see that SONY has been embedding GPL. […]

Source: Open Source Initiative blogs | Michael Tiemann

How Linux Supports More Devices Than Any Other OS, Ever 31 Oct 2008

Greg-Kroah Hartman discusses why he believes the Linux kernel supports more devices than any other operating system ever has, why binary-only drivers are impractical, immoral, and illegal, and how the. […]

Source: O'Reilly News: OnLamp | chromatic

SciPhone && Open Source 30 Oct 2008

These guys (SciPhone) really REALLY ought to get together with some open source developers. Looks like a great product, but it's almost 100% certain that their software stinks. Is it simply that they. […]

Source: Open Source Initiative blogs | nelson

The Perfect Cloud 28 Oct 2008

We haven't quite found the sweet spot for deploying apps to the cloud; the dependence on traditional databases and relatively complex environments make something like dropping a Pylons app on some ran. […]

Source: O'Reilly News: OnLamp | Eric Larson

Innovation Week in Africa – Young business innovators are making money with Open Source. 27 Oct 2008

All through last week, I spent my time in Ghana at the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Center for Excellence in ICT ( AITI-KACE ) in Accra. It has been an incredibly refreshing experience for me, personally, a. […]

Source: Open Source Initiative blogs | nnenna