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Open Source: Both Bigger And Less Relevant Than You Imagine

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 23rd of December 2014 08:21:17 PM Filed under
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Such is the case with the Ponemon Institute's survey of 1,400 technology professionals, which according to some outlets found big companies "cautious" and "slow" to embrace open source. Others, looking at the exact same data, found respondents "generally positive" to open source. (The survey was sponsored by Zimbra, which provide of open-source messaging and collaboration software.)

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Google and Facebook feel the wrath of German open source advocate

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 22nd of December 2014 08:53:38 PM Filed under
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Open-Xchange CEO Rafael Laguna has hit out at the closed nature of services offered by Silicon Valley giants like Google and Facebook.

Speaking in Paris earlier this month, Laguna said many of Silicon Valley's largest companies, and others like them, need to open up their proprietary systems to comply with laws around the world and uphold many of the citizen’s rights that people have fought for over the last several hundred years.

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Best of open hardware in 2014

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 22nd of December 2014 08:43:51 PM Filed under
Hardware
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Open hardware is the physical foundation of the open movement. It is through understanding, designing, manufacturing, commercializing, and adopting open hardware, that we built the basis for a healthy and self-reliant community of open. And the year of 2014 had plenty of activities in the open hardware front.

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ASF publishes long-overdue Code Of Conduct

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Monday 22nd of December 2014 12:05:58 AM Filed under
OSS

We pride ourselves at The Apache Software Foundation on our principles of "community over code" and "don't be a jerk". But, alas, we've been slow to codify some of these things in public. Part of this, I'm sure, is that it’s easy to think we all just know how we're supposed to treat people, and so you shouldn't have to say, right?

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Advocacy group: ‘ICT procurement is broken’

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Sunday 21st of December 2014 11:40:41 PM Filed under
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Legal

Public administrations in the EU are hindering competition by asking for specific brands and products when procuring software solutions, says OpenForum Europe, an organisation campaigning for an open, competitive ICT market. “No progress has been made in recent years. In fact the practice of referring to brand names in public procurement has become more widespread”, OFE says.

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EU to fund Free Software code review

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Sunday 21st of December 2014 11:37:57 PM Filed under
OSS

The European Parliament has approved funding for several projects related to Free Software and privacy. In the EU budget for 2015, which the European Parliament adopted on December 17, the Parliamentarians have allocated up to one million Euro for a project to audit Free Software programs in use at the Commission and the Parliament in order to identify and fix security vulnerabilities.

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8 open-source holiday gifts

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Sunday 21st of December 2014 11:14:18 PM Filed under
OSS

The holiday season is in full swing and you may still have a few people to check off your gift-giving list. If you're at a loss for what to buy the open-source-focused engineer or maker in your life, take a gander at these 8 open-source gifts.

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Public Interest, Software Freedom and Open Standards

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Sunday 21st of December 2014 06:53:01 PM Filed under
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OSS

...importance of working with upstream projects and initiatives for a government like the UK Government.

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Public interest and software freedom are not always aligned, in the sense that software freedom grant rights to users of Free Software but does not imply users will get what they want; in this case however, these two notions could become very much aligned. The same holds true for Open Standards: if major chunks of the UK’s public sector’s pool of documents is migrated to ODF, there is something close to a liability – and an opportunity- for this Government to ensure the format continues to thrive and be improved.

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Most important open source news of the year

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 19th of December 2014 07:20:30 PM Filed under
OSS

In 2014, we have seen continued growth for both use and adoption of open source software in the enterprise software market. Cloud takes a big part of that obviously, with project likes Docker and OpenStack who have been in the news frequently. But growth wasn't limited to increased use and adoption. We also noticed a lot of big names open sourcing their own solutions. Facebook announced a new branch of MySQL built for scalability, NASA released source code for many software projects, GitHub released the Atom text editor under a MIT license, and Google open sourced an email encryption tool and it's Chrome PDF engine. The biggest news this year when it comes to open sourcing software has been Microsoft with .Net. This list of new open source releases goes on, with companies like LinkedIn, organizations such as DARPA, and more. If this trend continues, we can expect a lot more to be released under an open source license in 2015.

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Uganda Adopts Free And Open Source Software For E-Governance

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 19th of December 2014 07:16:47 PM Filed under
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The population in Uganda has been growing rapidly. The country now has 35 million people. In order to provide quality services to its citizens and to improve the national competitiveness through administration innovation, the government has adopted free and open source software as the preferred mode of operation for electronic government (e-government) services and platforms.

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