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Open source is getting bigger and richer, says SUSE

Open-source software is the future, and it is free, assuming it can survive capitalism.

March 3, 2020 by Daphne Leprince-Ringuet

RISC-V opens up processor design

Open source has comprehensively changed the world of software. RISC-V wants to do the same for processors.

March 4, 2019 by Rupert Goodwins

Microsoft seeks relevance as open source era passes it by

A decade ago there was Microsoft and there was everyone else. The government tried, and failed, to change that. Open source succeeded where the government could not.

June 27, 2010 by Dana Blankenhorn

Colorado school offers degree in eco-tech

Shortly after Independence Day 2010, Education Corp. of America will open its first in a series of what the company hopes will become a series of campuses focused on offering degrees in renewable energy technology and sustainable design principles.

May 2, 2010 by Heather Clancy

An open source energy future?

In the energy market, what Microsoft is already doing would be a great advance. Groups like ISO and IEEE can get to work now standardizing couplers and other Enernet formats, so we can have interoperability entrepreneurs can produce to.

July 5, 2009 by Dana Blankenhorn

News to know: VMware; IE 8; Google; 3D Web

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.

March 24, 2009 by Larry Dignan

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Linux is ready to go green: Linus Torvalds

The infrastructure and tools required to make Linux a green operating system are now in place, according to Linus Torvalds, who was in Melbourne this week attending Australia's largest Linux conference.

January 30, 2008 by Munir Kotadia

Open Source Cars and More

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) might be in full throws this week, but some of the coolest devices may be found off the Net -- blueprints and all. A burgeoning trend in open source hardware is putting up some devices on the Web -- from machines that make anything (including themselves) to cars -- with the specs to make them yourself.

January 5, 2008 by Dave Greenfield

Mobile RIAs: Java, Apollo, and Silverlight's deathmatch? If so, what of Eclipse v. Netbeans?

Last week, while at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco, Sun drew some major lines in the sand for Java and now, about the only thing we can do is sit back and watch to see what happens. If I had to sum up what I heard, it's that the battle for supremacy in the RIA space (that's Rich Interactive Application if you're Microsoft, Rich Internet Application if you're not) will be fought in the mobile and embedded spaces.

May 14, 2007 by David Berlind

JavaFX headlines JavaOne

Sun has joined the club of companies building platforms for Rich Internet Application (RIA) platforms with JavaFX. The company hopes to give Java, which is in the process of being open sourced by Sun, a boost with the FX twist, joining Adobe's Flash and Apollo and Microsoft's Silverlight as a scripting environments for creating RIA Web experiences across various devices.

May 8, 2007 by Dan Farber