Germany’s new coalition government listed open source software among its IT policy priorities, and said it will take steps to protect its citizens against espionage threats from the NSA and other foreign intelligence agencies. Source: Tech
Tag: open source
What's keeping you from using open source software?
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Open source software , unlike proprietary software, is software that keeps the code open so IT professionals can alter, improve, and distribute it. Source: Tech
Red Hat Appoints Former McAfee Executive to Lead Red Hat's Canadian Operations
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Red Hat, Inc. , the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the appointment of Luc Villenueve as country leader of Red Hat Canada. Source: Tech
Commercializing open source software via Shareware
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Many software developers, like myself, have a difficult time finding the right balance between respecting the rights of the users of their software and earning a living developing that software. Source: Tech
5 factors to consider when selecting an open-source vendor
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Government agency adoption of open source in many ways mirrors the path followed by many in-demand technologies in the public sector. Source: Tech
Kickstarter: Raspberry Pi goes robotics
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A new Kickstarter project backed by robotics supplier Roboteq Inc. aims to turn the open-source Raspberry Pi single-board computer into the ideal controller for budget-minded roboticists. Source: Tech
Flexiant Solves the Business Challenges of OpenStack
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Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator Helps Service Providers Commercialize the Cloud by Opening the Platform to OpenStack and Adding Functional Feature-Rich Services London, UK – 20th November 2013 – Flexiant, an international provider of cloud orchestration software, today reveals how it is opening its platform to support OpenStack to solve the business challenges associated with the open…
Google now pays for finding Android security holes, too
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The program began with Chrome and expanded to Google Web sites and other open-source software projects. Source: Tech
Prepare students for a rapidly changing world by teaching with open source
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At the school district where I am the director of information technology, over 90% of our information systems have been transitioned to open source software. Source: Tech
Thales and MagTek deliver open source mobile point of sale (mPOS) solution for independent Payment Gateways
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Support for PIN based payment card transactions at mPOS lowers risk and transaction fees for mobile merchants moving away from cashCambridge, UK – 12 November 2013 – Thales, leader in information systems and communications security, and MagTek, a leading provider of secure transaction technology to the payment card industry, announce an integrated open source mobile…