Posts Tagged Open Source Community
The ‘year of the Linux desktop’ has passed
Posted by Newspapers Today in Science, Technology and Environment on February 18th, 2010
Many in the open-source community have been waiting for the “Linux desktop” to arrive for years, but they appear to have missed obvious signs that we’re beyond it.
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Published on Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:14:00 PST
Wikimedia hires open-source veteran as CTO
Posted by Newspapers Today in Science, Technology and Environment on January 28th, 2010
Danese Cooper, a former open-source community specialist at Sun and Intel, now will work on technology for Wikipedia and other projects.
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Published on Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:05:00 PST
The convenient fiction that Microsoft is evil
Posted by Newspapers Today in Science, Technology and Environment on November 16th, 2009
For many within the open-source community, it’s easier to hate Microsoft than to engage it. This is a mistake, and won’t help open source solve its own problems.
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Published on Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:18:08 PST
Facebook wastes no time putting FriendFeed to work
Posted by Newspapers Today in Science, Technology and Environment on September 23rd, 2009
The newly acquired start-up has become the face (pun intended) of not just Facebook’s further development of real-time streaming technology but also its forays into the open-source community.
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Published on Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:56:00 PDT
Open source seeks to eat its young (again)
Posted by Newspapers Today in Science, Technology and Environment on July 22nd, 2009
Open-source community may be its own worst enemy as it could potentially scare away would-be contributors by criticizing efforts from Adobe, Microsoft, and others.
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Published on Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:07:00 PDT
Wikipedia’s controversial video player coming soon
Posted by Newspapers Today in Science, Technology and Environment on July 17th, 2009
According to a recent interview with Wikipedia’s video guru, the Internet encyclopedia’s revamped video player is coming very soon. However it’s using a format that’s causing quite a stir in the open source community.
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Published on Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:41:00 PDT
Balancing open-source community and commerce
Posted by Newspapers Today in Science, Technology and Environment on May 23rd, 2009
Cloudera is balancing the Hadoop community with the company’s efforts to monetize an open-source project.
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Published on Sat, 23 May 2009 04:28:00 PDT
OpenRemote: Community will drive home automation
Posted by Newspapers Today in Science, Technology and Environment on May 19th, 2009
Co-founder Marc Fleury has a vision to leverage community to make OpenRemote successful, but it’s not the kind of open-source community most people talk about.
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Published on Tue, 19 May 2009 07:07:00 PDT
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