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Google to pull the plug on Google Code
By Viorel Tabara January 1, 2016 - 4:29pm Comments (4)Millions of broken links as Google's proprietary project hosting system will be shut down.Open Source Initiative Extends Affiliate Program to Higher Education
By Viorel Tabara January 21, 2016 - 9:57pm Comments (3)Just about half a year ago OSI expanded their community Affiliate Memberships to colleges and universities.How open source delivers for government
By Viorel Tabara 3 October 2016 @ 6:14pminfo.crunchydata.com - Note that in their view, proprietary solutions are "legacy". A simple example of how the move toward OSS can improve IT architecture is by thinking about database backups. In the legacy regime of licensed closed source software, each license of...Walmart: Why we chose OpenStack for Walmart Global eCommerce
By Dmitry Makovey 27 February 2015 @ 1:46pm Comments (3)Policy on Adoption of Open Source Software for Government of India
By Colin Elliott 30 March 2015 @ 3:35pm Comments (1)deity.gov.in - "The Indian government announced a policy yesterday that makes it mandatory to use open-source software in building apps and services, in an effort to 'ensure efficiency, transparency and reliability of such services at affordable costs.'" ...Juniper's products are still insecure; more evidence that the company was complicit / Boing...
By Jon Dron 10 January 2016 @ 11:51am Comments (1)boingboing.net - So it looks like the backdoor into Juniper firewalls that lets anyone invisibly observe encrypted traffic persists, and it looks more and more like it was an intentional policy. It is hard to fathom why anyone would trust a closed-source product...Vinux Project
By Viorel Tabara 9 July 2015 @ 10:25pmhttp://vinuxproject.org/ - Backtrace: http://wiki.vinuxproject.org/alpine_mutt From home page: Vinux is a Ubuntu derived distribution optimised for the needs of blind and partially sighted users. By default Vinux provides two screen-readers, Braille display support and a...Why I’m Saying Goodbye to Apple, Google and Microsoft - Dan Gillmor
By Viorel Tabara 27 February 2015 @ 1:30pmmedium.com - Hmm, there is no better article to kickstart this group activity (or maybe there is? ;). It's well known that OSX runs on BSD and it's got a lot of open source tools under the hood but with Microsoft open sourcing ASP.NET MVC, Web API, and Web Pages...Jupyter
By Viorel Tabara 2 June 2016 @ 11:27am Comments (1)http://jupyter.org/ - What started as an enhanced Python interpreter has now morphed into a rich scientific tool that allows collaboration in a connected world. Learn about the evolution of IPython.Hackers vs Crackers
By Viorel Tabara 24 November 2016 @ 10:53pmstallman.org - There is a misconception about hackers. Richard Stallman is one of them. And so are all the people who wrote the computer programs that make up today's Open Source ecosystem. It's not easy to teach the world when mainstream media front pages use the...
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