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Open Source:
Anyone seeking a case study of how a proprietary software company can “embrace and extend” itself into the open source world should stop thinking Microsoft and start thinking Blackboard.(Picture from the University of Alaska. Bonus points if you find a link to Russia from the site.)Blackboard has a long-running feud with op (Read More)
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Doc Searls Weblog:
On Thursday, right after failing to get a root canal for the Xth time (saga here), I participated in a square-table discussion (I say that because we sat around a table with four corners) titled “How to Make Money in News: New Business Models for the 21st Century — An Executive Session sponsored by the Joan Shorenstein Cent (Read More)
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Boing Boing:
Jeremy sez, "Shareable tells the story of sharing. We cover the people, places, and projects that are bringing a shareable world to life. And share tools and tips to help you make a shareable world real in your life. In a shareable world, things like car sharing, community gardening, and cohousing bring us together, make li (Read More)
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A few months ago, McKinsey & Co. asked me to write an article for their online magazine What Matters. The edited article, "Creative Commons: Enabling the next level of innovation" was just posted to their site.Following is the unedited original version.--The explosion of innovation around the Internet is driven by an ecosys (Read More)
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New York Times:
The government has switched its public Web site to Drupal technology, giving a big boost to the open source software. (Read More)
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Gizmodo:
If I wasn't so worried about traumatizing the kids in my neighborhood, dispensing trick or treat candy in this creepy spider bot pumpkin would be awesome. It runs C on an Axon microcontroller. It uses all digital servos and can lift over twice its body weight. The software (soon to be given out open source) allows for 6 (Read More)
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Planet Ubuntu:
So you've just installed Ubuntu 9.10, the cute and cuddly Karmic Koala, but now you're confronted with a most pertinent question, "What do i do now?" Ubuntu is a very complete and full-featured Linux distribution, but no operating system can come with everything you want. There's much more fun to be had in what comes after (Read More)
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Engadget:
It's October 2009 which means something very special for Linux fans: a 9.10 release of Ubuntu. Today we see the launch of "Karmic Koala" featuring a faster graphical boot sequence (no more scary text scrolls), a revamped audio framework that improves sound control across multiple applications, and a new Software Center that (Read More)
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BlogsDNA:
Many company and IT firms prefer to use custom home made software rather. You may want to publicize your firm name or company name using open source software. One such software which you can rebrand easily and distribute to your clients and users is Firefox and Thunderbird.To make it simple for you to customize Firefox & Th (Read More)
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Boing Boing:
Trossen Robotics forum member WGhost9 says they designed, built and programmed this creepy candy crawler in just 3 weeks. It runs C on an Axon microcontroller. It uses all digital servos and can lift over twice its body weight. The software (soon to be given out open source) allows for 6 synchronous degrees of motion. Futur (Read More)
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ReadWriteWeb:
At the US Department of Defense, open source and proprietary software are now on equal footing. According to Defense Department guidance issued yesterday (PDF), open-source software (OSS) should be treated just like any other software product. The document also specifies some of the advantages of OSS for the Department of D (Read More)
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Boing Boing:
John Scott's been working with the US Department of Defense to develop a set of guidelines for using free/open source software in the US military: As a Marine friend says "Agility is the Capability" - open source software and methods is the enabler of this.The DoD CIO office (or ASD-NII) just has posted new open source soft (Read More)
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Over the weekend, the White House new media team announced (via AP) that whitehouse.gov now runs on the open source content management system Drupal. Tim O'Reilly puts this news into context:This move is obviously a big win for open source. As John Scott of Open Source for America (a group advocating open source adoption b (Read More)
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Engadget:
The on-again / off-again love affair between Apple and ZFS seems to be all but over, with a brief but potent message on the Mac OS Forge project site stating the following: "The ZFS project has been discontinued. The mailing list and repository will also be removed shortly." If you'll recall, the implementation of the ZFS f (Read More)
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BBC:
On Wednesday morning I was on BBC Breakfast talking about Windows 7, and each time I was on air I mentioned Ubuntu, the most popular version of the Linux operating system. So were its devoted fans pleased? Quite the opposite, because in my second broadcast I committed an unpardonable sin. In a rather clumsily phrased senten (Read More)
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