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Despite being the poster child for open source business, Red Hat has had little interaction with many of the biggest open source communities. Red Hat has done wonderfully to attract businesses to their enterprise services, but attracting developers to their open source platforms has been a major challenge for the corporation. One attempt at remedying […]
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A very large part of the services offered on the web are free (as in beer) to users, but many of them come at the cost of freedom. Services like Twitter, Google, and facebook are being used to track users interactions on the web and to monetize as many of those interactions as possible. As […]
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Walmart has been a major backer of Hapi.js , a framework for node.js that allows developers to focus on producing reusable application code rather than building infrastructure. Walmart uses this software extensively in production environments and they have benefited from the open source community through early adopters that test the code and make it more […]
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Brian Steves, CTO of Red Hat since 2001, has unexpectedly quit his job. Some Red Hat employees speculate this move is related to disagreements between Stevens and Paul Cormier, Predsident of Products and Technologies. Stevens has been a major evangelist for OpenStack and has been on the boards of the IEEE Computer Society and the […]
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Seth Vargo, an engineer at Chef, announced in a blog post he was leaving the company and the software development profession after receiving death threats from members of the Chef community. The dispute arose over Berkshelf, a tool that some users and contributors felt hampered their daily tasks. This highlights the challenges of managing an […]
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Key insights: User generated improvements are better informed. Collective intelligence bears more leverage and needs less coordination Code velocity, committer reputation, user/vendor driven innovation, user activity, and corporate support are all metrics that can be used to evaluate the quality of an open source project. Foundations can help open source by being vendor neutral, enforcing […]
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The Chinese government is planning to release their own Linux distribution for desktop computers by October with a mobile OS following in the next 3 to 5 years. China recently banned the use of Windows 8 on government computers over fears of international spying. The goal is to offer an alternative to software from other […]
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The Cloud FX is the first Firefox OS smartphone and is now available for purchase in India. It features a 2MP rear camera, a 1.0 GHz processor, 128 MB of memory and 256 MB of device storage (expandable up to 4GB). Mozilla has focused on emerging markets for Firefox OS with the ability to run […]
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It’s been four years since Rackspace helped launch OpenStack, and the company is beginning to struggle. Fortunately, the OpenStack ecosystem is as vibrant and healthy as it has ever been, with the largest category of contributors being “others,” meaning most contributions are coming from individuals in many different companies. More from Tesora
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Simon Phipps is the president of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). Here, he is interviewed by Gordon Haff, a cloud evangelist at Red Hat. They discuss patent law, odf standard adoption in the UK and the importance of adopting open source in business. Key Highlights: Legal changes are occurring in the US that will make […]
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Following a slow start to the year 2014, Red Hat is now showing strong gains for the second half. This is fueled by the expansion of their middleware and cloud services which have netted multiple contracts worth over $5 million this year. This, coupled with their acquisition of InkTank, the makers of Ceph, earlier this […]
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Community Engagement is one of the most important considerations when building an open source community that has long-term sustainability. A Group of 30 community managers came together in Portland, Oregon for the Community Leadership Summit and built a list of methods to keep a community involved. This list includes welcoming new members, conducting assessments to […]
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Participating in open source can foster a sense of optimism and hope, open up new skills and abilities, and encourage deeper engagement in learning within the individuals involved. This article is chocked full of examples of open source expanding the potential of the human mind. More from OpenSource.com
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The Linux Foundation announced on Wednesday that SanDisk, Seagate, and Western Digital have become the latest companies to join the foundation. Adapteva and Github have also become members while Hitachi and NEC have committed resources to the Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative. More from The Register
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Open Source Hardware companies generated $50 million in revenue in 2013, an number that appears to be headed towards $1 billion next year. This is driven by companies like Adafruit, Arduino, Maker Shed, and Parrallex. Bug Labs is demonstrating the ongoing growth of this industry by recently raising $16 million in venture capital. More from […]
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A new study by researchers from Harvard and the University of Texas demonstrates how patent trolls have a significant negative effect on R&D spending of companies. The study showed companies who lost patent litigation against non-practicing entities spent $211 million less on R&D on average than those who won. The study also shows a negative […]
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More companies are turning to open source solutions for their business needs, with quality being the number one consideration for companies who adopt open source technologies. Black Duck and North Ridge Venture Partners joined together to conduct a survey to find out why businesses are choosing open source. Additionally, security and technical features were highly […]
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BitXBay is a P2P trading app that operates through the Bitmessage network to enable users to transfer money to anyone else securely and privately.Charly Clinton stated his motivation for starting this: “No trading rules, no registration, no need to enter into a contract or show their documents. Economics has nothing to do with politics or […]
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The State of Open Source: Mobile
Mobile computing devices have become commonplace in our society with an incredible amount of innovation occurring in the last decade alone. These developments have had a wide ranging impact on our daily lives, leading to a culture that highly values being connected to the network at all times. Companies are developing and releasing more powerful […]
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Silicon Valley is considered the center of the tech world by many, but according to an analysis of the top GitHub Contributors, roughly 3/4’s of open source development occurs elsewhere in the world. This shows that companies could benefit from hiring distributed teams in order to increase the size of their hiring pool. More from […]
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Barclays and CommBank have announced a partnership to develop an open source extract, transform, load (ETL) tool that works on top of Hadoop to evaluate large sets of data. The ETL market is currently dominated by proprietary offerings that require expensive new licenses every time a bank wants to evaluate a new data set. An […]
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With hardly a year of existance under its belt, Docker has acquired its first company: Orchard Laboratories. Orchard developed fig, an open source tool for creating development environments using Docker. This move is a part of Docker’s overall goal of moving from application organization to offering distributed services infrastructure. More from Info World.
