2014 has been a great year for open source as it appears we have reached a tipping point for open source adoption in many areas of our society. This article includes a list of 10 developments that demonstrate this trend. Some of the developments include: 1. Every layer of the stack is being defined by […]
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The Open Source Electronic Health Record Alliance (OSEHRA) has joined the Open Source Initiative’s affiliate membership program. OSEHRA has a mission to build and support a vendor-neutral community for the creation, evolution, promotion, and support or open source health IT software, something that mirrors the directive of the OSI. More from the Open Source Initiative
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The GPL has been the king of open source licenses for a while now, but with the rise of services like Github, that is slowly changing. The GPL was once more popular than the rest of the licenses combined, but this is no longer the case as Apache, BSD, and MIT licenses have all grown […]
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Microsoft has announced they will be releasing the code for “Project Orleans” which is used to power the basis of the Halo 4 services and architecture. The company has previously stated they think this application would be well suited to handle input from a large number and variety of Internet sensors, running social networks, or […]
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On November 12, Microsoft announced the .NET core stack would be made open source and that it would be capable of running on platforms other than Windows, such as Linux, and Mac. Under their new CEO, the company has refocused on attracting developers, and they realized that many smaller groups, open source developers, and academic […]
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Only a few weeks after approving the building of a new mobile radar system, the Marin Corps have altered the contract with Northrop Grumman to include a migration to Linux. Currently, the radar systems use Windows XP, and the Marines have decided to abandon it since it is no longer supported by Microsoft. More from […]
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The UN Food and Agriculture program has teamed up with a coalition of partner agencies to develop a data crunching tool to help national governments and relief organizations in their efforts to respond to crisis and conflict. InfoRM is designed to help identify where and why crises are likely to occur by tracking and evaluating […]
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Docker has achieved incredible success in the short two years it has been in existence, but some of the tech companies that have been involved since the early days are beginning to question whether or not the project still lives up to its original goal of making packaging software simpler. CoreOS is one of the […]
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Weaveworks announced on December 3 that the company has raised $5 million in series A funding to develop Weave: software that provides virtual networking services for the deployment of Docker containers. Weave established layer 2 connectivity between Docker containers, effectively making them appear as a giant Ethernet switch. The next step for the project is […]
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Networking vendor Juniper has announced they will be embracing the open compute platform with the upcoming OCX 1100 switch. This is a significant deviation from their normal business practices as they have relied on their own proprietary hardware running their own proprietary operating system. The company views open compute as an opportunity to expand their […]
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Google Code-In is an initiative to get teenagers involved in open source software projects. It is designed to make contributing an extremely simple process and a dozen open source projects are involved. Each project will select their own finalists, and two teenagers will win a trip to the Google headquarters in California. Any teen that […]
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CoreOS has announced the release of app container, an application that works similar to Docker by allowing applications to be packaged inside containers. Along with this release, CoreOS is also releasing Rocket for deploying and orchestrating app container. The company will continue to support Docker for anyone who would rather use it by allowing Docker […]
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A recent survey by Mendix found that 71% of companies are not able to deliver what the business is looking for, and 89% of companies have a project backlog that is not decreasing in size year over year. Meanwhile, the security company Coverity recently released a survey that found 16 different big data Apache applications […]
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Gngr is a web browser built from scratch to protect the privacy of its users. The default settings of the browser put privacy at the top of the list by disabling cookies, JavaScript, HTTP referring support, and third-party frames. The project announced they would begin open sourcing code after the initial release, and now some […]
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The National Security Agency and Apache have partnered to release the source code for Niagrafiles, and application that automates data flows among multiple computer networks, even when protocols differ. There are few details on how the software works at this point, but the goal is to reduce artificial delays in identifying and transmitting critical information. […]
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According to a report sponsored by unified collaboration software specialist Zimbra, more than 70% of IT professionals in the US believe open source software provides more control and ensures better business continuity than proprietary software. More than 1,300 IT professionals were surveyed and the findings indicate a continued move away from cost savings as the […]
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For decades, proprietary technology has been the norm for geospatial tracking. Boundless is a company trying to change that by offering open source solutions for geospatial tracking that allow developers to build tools that rely on locational information. Since their software is open source, there are no additional license costs associaed with scaling projects which […]
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Mozilla recently announced the launch of a developer’s version of Firefox. It is targeted at web developers and includes WebIDE and the Valence add-on which allows you to connect the Firefox developer tools to other web browsers. Firefox for developers also includes a responsive design view that allows developers to test out multiple screen sizes […]
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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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The RISC-V instruction set architecture was originally developed at the University of California Berkley and is now being pushed as an open source alternative to proprietary chips for cloud architecture. The goal is to create a product that can be custom built for a variety of cloud deployments to make it more efficient than proprietary […]
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The UK government has chosen to use ODF and PDF for all electronic documents used in government work. These formats were chosen due to their broad accessibility to both government institutions and individual citizens. More from Gov.UK
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