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An Overview Of The "Patent Trolls" Debate

Brian T. Yeh | Congressional Research Service | August 20, 2012

Congress has recently demonstrated significant ongoing interest in litigation by “patent assertion entities” (PAEs), which are colloquially known as “patent trolls” and sometimes referred to as “non-practicing entities” (NPEs)... Read More »

CloudOpen Keynote Q&A: OpenStack's Maffulli Says Open Cloud is New Frontier of Innovation

Jennifer Cloer | The Linux Foundation | August 2, 2012

OpenStack's Stefano Maffulli is on the opening keynote panel at CloudOpen Wednesday morning August 29...Mafulli was generous to take time out of his busy schedule as Community Manager at OpenStack to share his ideas on what is an open cloud and what's new with his project. Read More »

EC Calls For Use Of ICT Standards To Battle IT Vendor-Lock

Gijs Hillenius | European Commission | June 25, 2013

All of Europe's public administrations should use ICT standards "to help alleviate the lock-in of their ICT systems, encourage competition and underpin the development of the European digital single market", the European Commission said today. [...] Read More »

Enterprises See Growing Open Source Cloud Appeal

Jamie Yap | ZDNet | August 27, 2012

The maturing of open source software (OSS) and increasing support from mainstream IT vendors mean that cloud architectures built using OSS tools will grow on companies looking to avoid vendor lock-in, but they will need to assess whether they have the internal know-how to manage such deployments. Read More »

Evaluating the Harm from Closed-Source Healthcare Software

Ben Collier | Radical Data | June 10, 2012

In a fantastic article on his blog at http://esr.ibiblio.org/, Eric S. Raymond, author of "The Cathedral and The Bazaar" goes to some lengths to quantify the damages and costs of using closed-source software in an organisation.

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France Probes App Stores Over “Lock-In,” Confirms Raid On Apple

Jeff John Roberts | GigaOM | July 1, 2013

French competition authorities confirmed to GigaOM they are reviewing the app stores of Apple, Google and Amazon for possible antitrust violations. The agency also said it conducted a raid on Apple last week. Read More »

Google’s Iron Grip On Android: Controlling Open Source By Any Means Necessary

Ron Amadeo | Ars Technica | October 20, 2013

Six years ago, in November 2007, the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) was announced. The original iPhone came out just a few months earlier, capturing people's imaginations and ushering in the modern smartphone era. While Google was an app partner for the original iPhone, it could see what a future of unchecked iPhone competition would be like... Read More »

Google’s Mind-Blowing Big-Data Tool Grows Open Source Twin

Cade Metz | Wired | August 21, 2012

[Mike] Olson is the CEO of a Valley startup called Cloudera, and [John] Schroeder is the boss at MapR, a conspicuous Cloudera rival. Both outfits deal in Hadoop — a sweeping open source software platform based on data center technologies that underpinned the rise of Google’s web-dominating search engine — but in building their particular businesses, the two startups approached Hadoop from two very different directions... Read More »

How The World’s First Open Source MRI Happened

David Strom | SYS-CON Media | October 15, 2012

You wouldn’t think that a hang gliding accident could start a revolution in medicine. But when a teenager fell 150 feet into a lake several years ago, the subsequent events that sparked a revolutionary new diagnostic method, what I am calling the first open source MRI. Read More »

Linux Foundation's Jim Zemlin on another great year

Glyn Moody | Computerworld | November 12, 2012

Last year, I interviewed the head of the Linux Foundation, Jim Zemlin, about his own career, and about his organisation. That interview took place at the first European LinuxCon, which was held in Prague. This year, it took place in Barcelona, and I took the opportunity to catch up with Zemlin on what had happened in the intervening time (disclosure: the Linux Foundation paid for my travelling and accommodation while I was there.) Read More »

Mostashari To EHR Makers: Be 'Moral And Right' Or Else

Diana Manos | Government Health IT | February 7, 2013

Mostashari said that some vendors go beyond the boundaries of what society views as proper, in their lack of opaque pricing. He said he gets complaints from providers on a daily basis, saying that some pricing or contract requirements are unfair to them, and asking if there could be some federally regulated norms around pricing. Read More »

Open Source Celebrates The Freedom To Leave

Simon Phipps | InfoWorld | May 25, 2012

This week in San Francisco, the Open Source Business Conference unveiled its sixth annual Future of Open Source Survey. A self-selecting survey, its results very much reflect the interests of its sponsors, with the mere 740 respondents participating this year representing a 60 percent increase over the number who responded to last year's survey. All the same, the trends revealed in the survey provide some insight into what "influencers" are thinking. Read More »

Open Source Leads The Way Into The Cloud

Arsalan Farooq | Computerworld | August 29, 2012

Virtualization is now a well-established technology in enterprise computing. And in virtualization, VMware is the established leader. But virtualization has begat cloud computing and now the field of play in cloud computing is far more open thanks to open source technologies. Read More »

Open-Source Platform Gains Popularity In Government

Stuart Corner | The Age | September 24, 2013

So popular has a little-known open-source program become within federal government agencies that there is now a shortage of expertise in Canberra. Read More »

OpenNebula Quietly Keeps Building Its Open-source Cloud

Barb Darrow | GigaOM | July 10, 2012

With the OpenStack project turning two years old soon amid what will no doubt be a ton of vendor-generated hoopla, Ignacio Llorente wants the world to know that the more mature OpenNebula project continues to evolve, just a lot more quietly. Read More »