...despite the sheer number of projects that want to measure open source adoption, the numbers are bogus, because it's not in the interest of the people who have the data to release it.
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Open Application Integration
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Companies like Apple and Microsoft are starting to create a web of products that are all designed to work really well with each other...What these “webs” mean is that you can buy into the “Apple experience” or the “Microsoft experience.” The question in my mind was, what is the “open-source experience.”
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Open source solves UK cancer charity challenges
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There are hundreds of software implementations completed every day, but since it’s a sunny day in London, here’s one to warm the cockles of the rest of the open source fraternity…
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"Fashion accessory" PMP camera runs Linux
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A style-conscious Samsung digital camera and personal media player (PMP) is built on a MontaVista Linux platform, it was revealed by a reader. Shipping since last year, the Samsung i70 features 7.2-megapixel resolution, 3x optical zoom, and Samsung's ASR (Advanced Shake Reduction) technology.
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If Yahoo Implodes, What's the Effect on Open Source?
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One of the interesting aspects of Microsoft's long-running pursuit of Yahoo has been the potential knock-on effects for open source. Although the company doesn't make much of the fact, it uses a lot of free software, and has helped open source projects by employing some of the top hackers.
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Hey FOSS project, what's your pedigree?
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Organic open source. Non-organic open source. Genetically modified free software. None of these are phrases that are in common usage but exploring what they mean is an interesting exercise. MySQL's Brian Aker used the first two terms when responding to a post by Linux kernel guru Ted T'so about what Sun was trying to do with its OpenSolaris project. I made up the third one myself!
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Should Carriers Fear Open Source?
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Telecom juggernaut BT opens up about how it's using open source, though there are still some issues to overcome.
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Google's Android arrives in Sydney
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Australian mobile application developers got their first look at Google's Android mobile handset platform at Google's Australian development day in Sydney.
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Linux-powered clarinet playing robot wins international prize
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A team of experts and students from NICTA and the University of NSW have won first place in a major international technology competition for developing a robotically operated, computer-driven clarinet that runs on Linux.
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Electronic medical data the watchword, says Harvard Medical School CIO at Red Hat Summit
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Dr. John Halamka, the CIO at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, told IT professionals at this year's Red Hat Summit in Boston today to prepare for a world of fully integrated, accessible data -- because it's coming. Halamka also relayed how a migration from Unix to Linux-based servers shaved costs and created higher network throughput.
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IBM being wooed to support RP open source center
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IBM is being eyed to support a national open source software center that will serve both local software companies and end-users.
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The ASF's 'Apache Way' Continues to Gain Momentum, Recognition, and Influence on the Future of FOSS
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The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) - stewards, incubators, and developers of leading Open Source projects - today announced that both the organization's community and its meritocratic process (known as "the Apache Way") continues to gain recognition as one of the most influential, prominent, and innovative leaders in Open Source.
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‘Why worry about property protection?’
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Leading geneticist Samir Brahmachari explains why India should kickstart a new ‘open source’ approach to drug discovery for diseases like tuberculosis
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MontaVista Mobilinux Optimized for Freescale i.MX31 Multimedia Applications Processor
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MontaVista® Software, Inc., the leader in embedded Linux® commercialization, today announced that MontaVista Mobilinux™ 5.0 has been optimized to develop low-cost, low-power consumer products on the Freescale i.MX31 processor.
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The use of Linux as an operating system (OS) in the server market has proliferated because of its modular extensibility, open source code community, vast libraries of existing applications, robustness and, not surprisingly, favorable licensing. The obvious benefits of these same features suggest that Linux will also become the dominant OS for wireless devices.
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