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SOPA/PIPA: How to Stop Fear
The open source community is particularly at risk with the passage of either of these two pieces of legislation, because the wording gives media companies a license to not only hunt and kill sites that host pirated copy, but also the tools that media companies claim enable downloading. That includes a lot of DRM-free and open source software.
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Spanish Region Saves A Fortune By Moving To Open Source
In a victory for the free software movement, the Spanish autonomous region of Extremadura has started to switch more than 40,000 government PCs to open source. Read More »
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SPDX Announces New Tools To Further Simplify Open Source License Compliance
Samsung contributes two new tools to Linux Foundation SPDX workgroup, increasing efficiency in compliance automation...
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Standardized Open Source Products Are The Key To Unlocking The Lock-In Trap
Mårten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, argues that when companies lock in to their own design and customizations, it’s as harmful as when they lock in to a vendor. Mickos explains why he thinks using standardized open source products is the best way to avoid both types of lock-in...
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State University of New York at Albany Launches VistA EHR Studies Program
The Albany Campus of the State University of New York (SUNY) has launched a new VistA EHR Studies program—the most comprehensive one of its kind in the United States. The program, which began on March 24, provides students the basis to learn and manage VistA’s fast-growing open source electronic health record (EHR) system. The decision to launch the full program follows a successful pilot course taught at the university this past fall. Read More »
Taking an Open (Source) Approach to HIT Challenges
There are three key areas of open-source innovation that can significantly benefit IT departments with strapped budgets and impending compliance mandates.
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The 10 oldest, significant open-source programs
Does open-source software still seem "new" to you? Think again, its roots go back decades. Read More »
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The Air Force's Secure Linux Distribution
The Software Protection Initiative (SPI) under the direction of the Air Force Research Laboratory and the US Department Of Defense recently created Lightweight Portable Security (LPS). Like the name indicates, this is a small Linux desktop distribution that’s designed for secure use.
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The Document Foundation Celebrates Its First Anniversary
The Document Foundation (TDF) celebrates its first anniversary, one year after the unveiling of the project and the release of the first beta of LibreOffice. “What we have achieved in just twelve months is incredible,” says Charles Schulz, a member of the Steering Committee. Read More »
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The Forkers Saving Open Source From A Corporate Bear Hug
Open source has long had a strong corporate element to it, perhaps starting in earnest when IBM pledged to spend $1bn on Linux back in 2000. Despite the benefits of corporate funding of open-source software - more money, more source code written - some question whether open source has become too corporate... Read More »
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The Future Of Linux: Evolving Everywhere
Cemented as a cornerstone of IT, the open source OS presses on in the face of challenges to its ethos and technical prowess Read More »
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The Halloween Documents: Microsoft's Anti-Linux Strategy 15 Years Later
It's almost Halloween—which marks 15 years since Eric S. Raymond published the first leaked "Halloween Documents" documenting Microsoft's (MSFT) secret strategy to compete with Linux and open source... Read More »
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The Heritage and Legacy of M (MUMPS) – and the Future of YottaDB
In computing, the term legacy system has come to mean an application or a technology originally crafted decades ago, one important to the success of an enterprise, and which at least some people consider obsolete. But age alone does not make something obsolete – we still read and appreciate Shakespeare a half-millenium after his death, and paper clips from over 100 years ago are still familiar to us today, We must recognize that software is also part of our technical and cultural heritage (see Software Heritage). As in much else in our daily lives, legacy and heritage are intertwined.
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The Indian Connection To Red Hat's Growth Story
Last financial year, open source software provider Red Hat became the first Linux vendor to breach the $1-billion revenue mark, recording a revenue of $1.3 billion. This growth story has a strong India connect. Read More »
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The Inside Story Of The Open Source PC, And How It Could Stop You Being A Slave To Your Hardware
Hardware engineer Andrew 'bunnie' Huang on how his path to building an open source computer started with a childhood fascination with the Apple II and why we need to rediscover open hardware...
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