India is now the fastest growing market for the open source operating system Ubuntu with it achieving a growth of 50% year-over-year. Canonical has benefited greatly from a partnership with Dell and HP to include Ubuntu on laptops sold in the country, and the low-cost alternative to proprietary operating systems has made Ubuntu a popular […]
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Microsoft has always had problems gaining traction in emerging markets, with many people not willing to spend exorbitant amounts for their software. In China this has resulted in widespread piracy of Microsoft software and the emergence of ‘naked PC’s’ which do not have an operating system installed. Between the costly prices of Microsoft products and […]
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Jim Zemlim recently said “Code is the next resume” with more and more employers wanting to look at the coding abilities of potential employees, even for positions not directly related to software development. More large corporations are embracing open source on a continual basis, and many of them are looking for people who are capable […]
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The European nuclear research facility, CERN, displayed their commitment to open source software during the recent OSCON. CERN generates immense amounts of information and distributes that information to scientific teams all over the planet, currently CERN maintains over 100 petabytes of data and generates an additional 35 petabytes of data every year. The team at […]
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Microsoft has not been a friend to open source for most of its history, however it seems the company is now attempting to reap the benefits of open source designs. By comparing their platforms to Linux, and through changes to their internal code sharing policies, Microsoft is slowly warming up to open source development, but […]
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Range Networks and 2600hz have joined together to integrate2600Hz’s Kazoo telecom services with Range Network’s OpenBTS-powered radio access networks during ClueCon. Their solution will offer a network that is distributed, redundant, and fault-tolerant. More from Fierce Wireless
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Bitcoin is quickly emerging as an alternative system of wealth storage and currency. It is an entirely unique asset class in and of itself, and it places financial power into the distributed network of all participants. The combination of digital scarcity, network effect, a finite supply with infinite divisibility, and a distributed trust network are […]
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Android accounted for 84.6 of all smartphone shipments for Q2 2014, a new record. Here are some additional numbers for Q2: 249.6 million Android smartphones were shipped, up from 186.8 from the same period last year. Overall smartphone shipments grew 27% annually in Q2 from 233M to 295.2M Strategy Analytics predicts smartphone users will approach […]
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Michael Tiemann played a major role in establishing open source as a legitimate market force in its early days. His foray into open source started by making contributions to the GNU C Compiler and led to him being a co-founder of Cygnus Solutions: the world’s first open source software company. This company was ultimately sold […]
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The undeniable success of Google’s Chromebook shows there is a demand for computing devices that operate primarily in the cloud. Linux has all of the foundations for creating a functional cloud operating system and it seems conditions are ripe for someone to develop a distribution based on this idea. More from Tech Republic
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Isolated incidents of government organizations migrating to open source are popping up in the news. Despite these developments, many governments know very little about the benefits of open source on IT infrastructure. Switching to open source can help government organizations switch technologies and make improvements much more easily, be more agile, and innovate more rapidly. […]
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The release of LibreOffice 4.3 has renewed vigor in the LibreOffice community in their drive to replace MS Office. More than 80 million devices are using LibreOffice, a number the Document Foundation expects to grow to 200 million by the end of the decade. LibreOffice is gaining support from many organizations and governments around the […]
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Red Hat is forming an alliance along with AMD, American megatrends, Appliced Micro, Broadcom, Dell, HP, Linaro, and ARM Holdings to develop a standardized 64-bit ARM platform for servers. ARM is being eyed by many companies for server environments because of its low power consumption and adaptability, but so far most server platforms have been […]
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A number stories have been emerging recently on the failures of open source, but it seems these articles might have missed aspects of the bigger picture. Despite a lack of perfection, open source has made substantial gains in many areas of the tech industry in recent years, and many more companies are finding ways to […]
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Versata v. Ameriprise sparked a series of legal actions that have the potential to drastically redefine open licensing, specifically the GPLv2. Versata sues Ameriprise over their use of 3rd party contractors to create modifications to Versata’s proprietary code. Their argument is decompiling the code is a violation of the license. Ameriprise discovers code in Versata’s […]
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Four companies have joined the Linux Foundation to further help spread the adoption of Linux. Daynix: a software development and consulting company, Linaro: an ARM engineering company, Systena: a software provider, and BearingPoint: a management and technology consulting firm have all joined the organization. More from the Linux Foundation
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More companies are looking for clustered server systems that can expand into the hundreds or even thousands of nodes. Linux is being chosen as the platform for high-powered systems more and more; Bright Computing seeks to help businesses manage Linux server clusters with $14.5 M in series-b funding. More from Venture Beat
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Raspberry Pi was started as an answer to declining programming and debugging skills in undergraduates at Cambridge University. The low price point and open design quickly made it a hit in many communities including makers, inventors, and educators. The approach of Raspberry Pi has focused on education first, meaning that not everything is open source […]
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The State of Open Source: Privacy and Governance
Privacy has received a great amount of attention globally in recent months. Edward Snowden, a former NSA contractor, has been releasing extensive information about the NSA through the Guardian. These leaks have painted a very questionable picture of the US government, specifically the NSA, carrying out ongoing spying operations . Before now, privacy in digital […]
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