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Microsoft founder Bill Gates is famously against open source software. While speaking about his upcoming plans to work on the Gates Foundation full-time, he was asked if he would consider open sources uses in health research, and he replied… “There’s free software and then there’s open source,” he suggested, noting that Microsoft gives away its [...]
This great website can help you find open source alternatives to your favorite commercial products. It also helps you decide whether to use open source or commercial software by offering these advantages: By choosing an open source product, the user obtains a number of advantages compared to commercial products. Besides the fact that open source [...]
The prestigious Harvard Business Review recently published a case study called “Open Source: Salvation or Suicide” by Scott Wilson and Ajit Kambil of Deloitte Research. It features a fictional company whose CEO has never heard of open source and is a little frightened by the idea when it is presented to her. However their open [...]
Google recently closed the registration for its 3-month Summer of Code and announced that this year’s program brings together the talents of 1125 students who will be given stipends worth $5000 each to contribute to 175 Free and Open Source projects: Mozilla, GNOME, and MySQL, among others. The lucky students will even be allowed to [...]
The huge global team behind the Open Office suite of products will be holding their annual conference in Beijing, China this year. The conference proper will be on October 15-17 with tours and activities on other dates. For the schedule of activities, location and other details, see this page. According to their site: This annual [...]
Traditional business owners may still prefer to purchase expensive software rather than use free open source software because there is nobody to go to for training and support in case things go wrong, thus they are afraid to adopt the use of open source software in their companies. Is this a valid concern? In actuality, [...]