I fear the Apocalypse may be here. No, don't worry; this has nothing to do with our recent Presidential election. Many others have already opined on that, from all perspectives, and I'll leave any further discussion about it to them. No, what struck a nerve with me is something that drew much less attention: a U.S. university has given out what is believed to be the first varsity scholarship for esports. That's crazy, right? We know what college sports are, and they're not esports. Are esports even sports? Why would a university be giving out athletic scholarships in them?...
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Not Just a Game
By Kim Bellard | November 9, 2016
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NSA Concedes Hadoop Beats Its Pricey Alternatives
Matt Asay | ReadWrite | June 21, 2013
Despite its billion-dollar budget, the open-source community builds better Big Data technology than the NSA. Read More »
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NSA Said To Collect Millions Of E-mail Address Books, Chat Lists
Steven Musil | CNET | October 14, 2013
Collection occurs when Internet services transmit the data during routine activity such as composing a message, The Washington Post reports. Read More »
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NSA Spying Risks $35 Billion In U.S. Technology Sales
Nicole Gaouette | Bloomberg | November 26, 2013
International anger over the National Security Agency’s Internet surveillance is hurting global sales by American technology companies and setting back U.S. efforts to promote Internet freedom. Read More »
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NSA Surveillance Is An Attack On American Citizens, Says Noam Chomsky
Fiona Harvey | The Guardian | June 19, 2013
The actions of the US government in spying on its and other countries' citizens have been sharply criticised by Noam Chomsky, the prominent political thinker, as attacks on democracy and the people. Read More »
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Ohloh Wants to Fill the Gap Left by Google Code Search
Klint Finley | TechCrunch | July 20, 2012
Google Code Search, introduced in 2006 was meant to make it easy to search for open source code no matter where it’s stored, but Google recently pulled the plug on the service this year. The team at Black Duck hopes its recently relaunched Ohloh site will fill that gap. Read More »
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Open Access Award Recipients Announced
Staff Writer | Wellcome Trust | October 22, 2013
To mark the beginning of Open Access Week, the Accelerating Science Award Programme announced the three recipients of its inaugural award yesterday in Washington, DC. Read More »
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Open Chemistry Project Raises Up the Next Generation of Researchers
By Marcus D. Hanwell | November 10, 2016
In 2007 I took part in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) developing the Avogadro application. As we were developing Avogadro, we founded The Open Chemistry project as an umbrella project to develop related tools for chemistry and materials science. Our goal is to bring high quality open source tools to research communities working in these areas, and to develop other tools to complement the Avogadro molecular editor. This year we were very pleased to be selected as a mentoring organization for GSoC; a few of our mentors are Geoff Hutchison, Adam Tenderholt, David Koes, and Karol Langner, who are all long-time contributors in related projects. And, we were lucky to get three slots for student projects...
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Open Invention Network Announces Expansion of its Patent Non-Aggression Coverage
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May 4, 2017
Open Invention Network (OIN), the largest patent non-aggression community in history, with well over 2000 organization members, announced today that it has expanded its patent non-aggression coverage through an update to its definition of the Linux System. The expansion focuses on core open source system and middleware level packages, including software packages that support the growing use of Linux in industries that include finance (e.g., blockchain), automotive, telecommunications and the internet-of-things (IoT). The expansion is part of Open Invention Network's program to regularly revise its Linux System coverage to keep pace with innovation...
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Open Invention Network Surpasses 3,000 Members
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June 18, 2019
Open Invention Network (OIN), the largest patent non-aggression community in history, announced today that more than 3,000 organizations have joined its community and granted the OIN license to fellow members. To put this milestone into perspective, in only two years, OIN has increased the size of its community by 50 percent. This indicates the growing importance of open source software (OSS) and is an acknowledgment that patent non-aggression is a vital tenet of the open source community.
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Open Science Leaps Forward In 2014
Marcus D. Hanwell | Opensource.com | December 23, 2014
We have had quite a year of open science at Opensource.com in 2014! I couldn't hope to cover every article we published over the year, but I will highlight some of my favorites...
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Open Source and Coopetition Are the New Normal
Ron Miller | TechCrunch | November 17, 2016
In a month of unexpected outcomes, we have also seen some tech partnership announcements, ones we thought we might never see. In fact, just this week we witnessed Microsoft joining the Linux foundation and Google joining Microsoft’s .NET foundation. You cannot minimize just how at odds these announcements are with what has been the reality of the tech industry over the last 20 years. These are organizations that have battled one other in a bitter war of words and technology visions. The idea that they would someday be working together was a highly unlikely outcome...
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Open Source And Linux In 2014
Jim Lynch | IT World | December 29, 2014
In today's open source roundup: Looking back at open source and Linux in 2014. Plus: Switching from Apple laptops to Chromebooks, and the best gaming mouse for Linux?...
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Open Source at Your Company? 6 Questions Your Manager Will Ask
By Nicole C. Engard | May 21, 2016
Christian Grail gave a talk at OSCON 2016 titled: "How to convince your manager to go open source." I thought the perspective was going to be from the user side but it was from the employee side, about convincing your manager to open source the projects at your company. "Isn't the quality going to suffer?" There is a perception that when we're only depending on our internal team, we can control the quality. The fact is that with open source, you have nice lean code and the quality is usually better because it's being worked on all of the time, regardless of where and by whom. The advantage with most open source software is that you get a community, so you have more than just your team of X developers...
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Open Source Databases Keep Chipping Away At Oracle’s Empire
Klint Finley | WIRED | January 7, 2015
The three fastest growing databases of 2014 were all open source, according to a new report from DB-Engines, a site that tracks popularity in the rapidly changing database marketplace...
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