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OSS, Openwashing and FUD
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 21st of March 2018 05:11:29 PM Filed under
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Report “State of the Open-Source DBMS Market, 2018” by Gartner Includes Pricing Comparison With MariaDB [Ed: Gartner attacked FOSS for many years because Microsoft paid it to. Now it pretends to be a FOSS authority!?]
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VMWare's Dirk Hohndel on Linux and Open Source Software
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Innovium Announces OCP SAI and Open-Source SONiC Solution to Accelerate TERALYNX™ Market Adoption
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Open source geospatial provides groundwork for emerging technologies – Brian L. Soliday, awhere
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Open Source Compliance [Ed: Obsessing over risks of FOSS compliance while ignoring vastly worse risks associated with proprietary software]
For some time, the open source community has discussed how to put a stop to the copyright troll game. Approaches such as the "Principles of Community Enforcement" and the Linux Kernel developers "Kernel Enforcement Statement" were created to regain lost trust. Large companies such as Facebook, Googleand IBM are already committed to these principles.
In view of the millions that can be generated by aggressively pursuing license violations, copyright trolls are likely to continue to their activities despite these measures.
In addition, many issues regarding open source law are still unclear. The wording of license terms is often so imprecise that even the scope of the rights being granted is not clear. This "construction error" can be exploited by anyone seeking to enforce claims for profit. Cases have become known in which even over-the-air distribution of open source software was criticised for license violations. The licenses do not contain a clear provision for this form of use, which can be exploited by a holder of rights seeking profits.
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Open Data (OD) for Research of Shootings
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 21st of March 2018 05:08:45 PM Filed under
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John Jay College Researchers Developing Open Source Database of School Shootings
A new open source database at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, developed in partnership with the University of Texas at Dallas and Michigan State University, will track shootings at K–12 schools and analyze the factors involved in such attacks. The project is supported by a grant from the National Institute of Justice's Comprehensive School Safety Initiative, a research effort focused on identifying the root causes of school violence as well as developing and evaluating strategies for boosting school safety.
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New Open Source Database to Track School Shootings
A new open source database at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, being developed in partnership with the University of Texas at Dallas and Michigan State University, will track shootings at K–12 schools and analyze the factors involved in such attacks. The project is supported by a grant from the National Institute of Justice's Comprehensive School Safety Initiative, a research effort focused on identifying the root causes of school violence as well as developing and evaluating strategies for boosting school safety.
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John Jay Launches National Database to Aid School Shooting Research
A new initiative announced by John Jay College of Criminal Justice Tuesday aims to overcome the lack of hard data on school shootings through an open-source database tracking incidents nationwide.
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John Jay College Researchers Develop First of its Kind School Shootings Database
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Three Universities Launch National Database to Track School Shootings
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GitHub’s tool reduces open source software license violations
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Wednesday 21st of March 2018 04:46:47 PM Filed under
GitHub has open-sourced its Licensed tool, a Ruby gem that caches and verifies the status of license dependencies in Git repos.
Licensed has helped GitHub engineers who use open source software find potential problems with license dependencies early in the development cycle. The tool reports any dependencies needing review.
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LG/webOS Latest
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 21st of March 2018 04:46:16 PM Filed under

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Samsung, LG Electronics Vying for High-end TV Market Leadership
On March 18, LG Electronics released new TVs in South Korea and Samsung Electronics launched new TVs in the United States. The new TVs of Samsung Electronics make their debut next month in the South Korean market.
Competition between Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics has continued for long in the premium TV market. Samsung Electronics topped the global TV market for 12 years in a row until last year, but LG Electronics is a very strong contender in the premium TV market.
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LG Wants To Make webOS Platform Open Source
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LG releases open-sourced version of webOS
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WebOS Enters Next Phase as Global Platform Under LG's Stewardship
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LG will reportedly introduce a redesigned flagship phone in June
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LG Offers Open Source webOS to Spur Development in South Korea
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CAVO Promotes Open Source Voting in Documentary and Legislation
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 21st of March 2018 04:36:30 AM Filed under
"The Real Activist" slated for release this summer will include an interview with Brent Turner of OSI Affiliate Member CAVO, as well as coverage of the groups work to promote open source software within US elections' voting systems. The documentary highlights Turner's efforts and CAVO's mission to secure the United States election systems through GPL licensed open source software. Famed narrator Peter Coyote also stars in the film along with former CIA Director R. James Woolsey and many political notables.
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Latest on webOS
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 21st of March 2018 03:37:50 AM Filed under


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LG Open Sources WebOS to Take It Beyond Just Smart TVs
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LG Joins Hands with NIPA to Attract App Developers
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LG Wants to Expand webOS Beyond Smart TVs
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LG is open-sourcing webOS to expand beyond Smart TVs
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webOS Enters Next Phase as Global Platform Under LG's Stewardship
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LG releases webOS Open Source Edition
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LG releases an open source version of its webOS platform
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LG partners for webOS push
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LG releases webOS as open source again
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Screw luxury fridges, you can now run webOS on your Raspberry Pi
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Open source version of webOS launches with smart device focus
LG has released webOS Open Source Edition optimized for the Raspberry Pi 3 that expands its HTML5-savvy Linux distro beyond LG smart TVs and fridges to a larger “smart devices” market.
In collaboration with the South Korean government, consumer electronics giant LG announced the release of webOS Open Source Edition, an open source version of its well-traveled, web-oriented Linux distro. Under LG’s ownership, the old Palm- and HP-directed OS has been a largely proprietary stack running on its smart TVs and refrigerators. LG’s webOS OSE, which is backed up by a community site with forums, guides, tools, and source https://liliputing.com/2018/03/lg-releases-webos-open-source-edition-looks-to-expand-webos-usage.htmlcode, is now available to the open source community to build a range of “smart devices.” Optimized for the Raspberry Pi 3, the Apache-licensed platform requires an Ubuntu desktop for development.
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LG steps up Samsung rivalry by making webOS platform open source
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result - so the news that LG is looking to make webOS, its proprietary operating system, open source seems to have all the hallmarks of that mistake.
After all, WebOS was developed by Palm all the way back in 2009, moved to HP in 2010 when the company acquired Palm and an attempt to make it open source in failed, before LG bought the technology.
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OSS Leftovers
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 20th of March 2018 05:14:45 PM Filed under
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Can we build a social network that serves users rather than advertisers?
Today, open source software is far-reaching and has played a key role driving innovation in our digital economy. The world is undergoing radical change at a rapid pace. People in all parts of the world need a purpose-built, neutral, and transparent online platform to meet the challenges of our time.
And open principles might just be the way to get us there. What would happen if we married digital innovation with social innovation using open-focused thinking?
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Digital asset management for an open movie project
A DAMS will typically provide something like a search interface combined with automatically collected metadata and user-assisted tagging. So, instead of having to remember where you put the file you need, you can find it by remembering things about it, such as when you created it, what part of the project it connects to, what's included in it, and so forth.
A good DAMS for 3D assets generally will also support associations between assets, including dependencies. For example, a 3D model asset may incorporate linked 3D models, textures, or other components. A really good system can discover these automatically by examining the links inside the asset file.
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LG Releases ‘Open Source Edition’ Of webOS Operating System
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Private Internet Access VPN opens code-y kimono, starting with Chrome extension
VPN tunneller Private Internet Access (PIA) has begun open sourcing its software.
Over the next six months, the service promises that all its client-side software will make its way into the hands of the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) community, starting with PIA's Chrome extension.
The extension turns off mics, cameras, Adobe's delightful Flash plug-in, and prevents IP discovery. It also blocks ads and tracking.
Christel Dahlskjaer, director of outreach at PIA, warned that "our code may not be perfect, and we hope that the wider FOSS community will get involved."
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Open sourcing FOSSA’s build analysis in fossa-cli
Today, FOSSA is open sourcing our dependency analysis infrastructure on GitHub. Now, everyone can participate and have access to the best tools to get dependency data out of any codebase, no matter how complex it is.
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syslog-ng at SCALE 2018
It is the fourth year that syslog-ng has participated at Southern California Linux Expo or, as better known to many, SCALE ‒ the largest Linux event in the USA. In many ways, it is similar to FOSDEM in Europe, however, SCALE also focuses on users and administrators, not just developers. It was a pretty busy four days for me.
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Cisco's 'Hybrid Information-Centric Networking' gets a workout at Verizon
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Verizon and Cisco ICN Trial Finds Names More Efficient Than Numbers
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LLVM-MCA Will Analyze Your Machine Code, Help Analyze Potential Performance Issues
One of the tools merged to LLVM SVN/Git earlier this month for the LLVM 7.0 cycle is LLVM-MCA. The LLVM-MCA tool is a machine code analyzer that estimates how the given machine code would perform on a specific CPU and attempt to report possible bottlenecks.
The LLVM-MCA analysis tool uses information already used within LLVM about a given CPU family's scheduler model and other information to try to statically measure how the machine code would carry out on a particular CPU, even going as far as estimating the instructions per cycle and possible resource pressure.
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Taking Data Further with Standards
Imagine reading a book, written by many different authors, each working apart from the others, without guidelines, and published without edits. That book is a difficult read — it's in 23 different languages, there's no consistency in character names, and the story gets lost. As a reader, you have an uphill battle to get the information to tell you one cohesive story. Data is a lot like that, and that's why data standards matter. By establishing common standards for the collection, storage, and control of data and information, data can go farther, be integrated with other data, and make "big data" research and development possible.
For example, NOAA collects around 20 terabytes of data every day.Through the National Ocean Service, instruments are at work daily gathering physical data in the ocean, from current speed to the movement of schools of fish and much more. Hundreds of government agencies and programs generate this information to fulfill their missions and mandates, but without consistency from agency to agency, the benefits of that data are limited. In addition to federal agencies, there are hundreds more non-federal and academic researchers gathering data every day. Having open, available, comprehensive data standards that are widely implemented facilitates data sharing, and when data is shared, it maximizes the benefits of "big data"— integrated, multi-source data that yields a whole greater than its parts.
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Openwashing: Attivio, Networking, and Black Duck
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 20th of March 2018 03:03:02 PM Filed under
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Attivio Releases Open Source UI Toolkit for Rapid Development of AI-Powered Search Applications
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Attivio Releases Open Source UI Toolkit for Development of AI-Powered Search Applications
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Verizon Tests Cisco Open-Source Networking Technology [Ed: No, it's not Open Source]
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Facebook, Google, Big Switch Networks to demo open source collaboration
Big Switch Networks will present an OCP Summit keynote with Facebook and Google to demonstrate three different approaches to building Network Operating Systems (NOSs). Each of these approaches are built with Open Network Linux (ONL) and all are running on Open Compute Project (OCP) switch hardware. Big Switch is also introducing the ONL Certified Gold programme that provides continuous validation of ONL versions on designated britebox and whitebox platforms, providing assurance to organisations adopting ONL of complete code validation.
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Facebook, Google, Big Switch Demo Network Operating Systems Built on Open Hardware
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The top open-source rookies, projects in 2018 [Ed: Anti-FOSS front Black Duck pretends to be a FOSS authority]
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Feed the dog and close the door with an open source home automation system
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Tuesday 20th of March 2018 10:16:00 AM Filed under
As voice assistants, smart bulbs, and other devices increasingly become household staples, more people than ever are bringing smart technology into their homes. But the bewildering assortment of products on the market can present challenges: Remembering which app to use and trying to link things together with automation can get complicated quickly. In this article, I’ll show you a few ways I used an open source home automation platform, Home Assistant, to bring all my devices together.
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How 11 open source projects got their names
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Tuesday 20th of March 2018 10:12:22 AM Filed under
"So, two open source developers walk into a bar..." Arduino derives its name from one of co-founder Massimo Banzi's favorite bars in Ivrea, Italy, where the founders of this "hardware and software ecosystem" used to meet. The bar was named for Arduin of Ivrea, who was king of Italy a bit more than 1,000 years ago.
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