How open source technology is being deployed in science
Countless industries have benefited immensely from utilizing open source software - with science and engineering among the sectors driving the charge.
Countless industries have benefited immensely from utilizing open source software - with science and engineering among the sectors driving the charge.
Security researchers at Symantec discover a new Duqu driver compiled in February 2012.
For security researcher, software hacker and activist Jacob Appelbaum, the equation is clear. Anyone working on surveillance or censorship technology is part of a serious global problem.
Open standards set terms of competition that advantage the low-cost producer of bits and processing. That's Google.
The fact that CCHIT heard out open source respectfully is good. But at this point it can easily dismiss open source concerns by just punting them down the road, past the delivery of the Obama stimulus money.
The War against Microsoft has been won.
An article yesterday on ZDNet argued that Microsoft might soften its stance towards open source, and may even write applications for its famous open source competitor, Linux. A few years ago, I would have been more skeptical.
Meet Stuart Cohen, CEO of Open Source Development Labs. In some ways a product out of IBM's old school era, Cohen and his organization are the ecumenical North Pole of an open source world, which is struggling to straddle the fence between the direction it's going (business mainstream) and the place it came from (the hacker community).
commentary When news first surfaced that Novell would be releasing its Novell Linux Desktop (NLD, based on SuSE Linux) ahead of schedule, discussion threads and blogs were all agog (or is that "ablog"?).
The former missile scientist says nonproprietary technology would make his nation's weapon systems safer.