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Cloud Computing to the Max

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

With cloud computing growing day by day, the limits are really looking indefinite to its reach and potential. Cloud computing has applications run from the cloud or a collective of computer systems linked such as the internet. The program never resides on one specific system but is rather juggled around in cyberspace used by who [...]

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Open Source for Mobiles on the Rise

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

The world has been hearing about open source for quite sometime and as usual most do not know them even if it has been staring them right at their nose. Most know of the selling term Android-Based phones well then they are most partly developed on open source but from the rest it is considered [...]

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Mobile Apps are a Money Pit

Friday, February 18th, 2011

Many developers express delight in the cloud yet they all agree on the fact that monetization of Mobile Apps is still a black hole for most. The mobile app industry can be compared to a pickle expected to be as sweet as honey for it is based heavily on trends and other social media. Mobile [...]

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Non-software Use

Friday, December 10th, 2010

The principles of open source have been adapted for many other forms of user generated content. Supporters of the open content movement advocate some restrictions of use, requirements to share changes, and attribution to other authors of the work. This “culture” or ideology takes the view that the principles apply more generally to facilitate concurrent [...]

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Even though most freelance web programmers choose to work on their own and take up projects autonomously, there are some who manage to work out good relationships with other programmers, and develop a strong partnership, providing a much more solid and worthwhile service. Of course, working as part of a team isn’t suitable for everyone [...]

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The Battle Continues

Sunday, October 10th, 2010

With the growing competition from the open source software suppliers, Microsoft is ready to cooperate for sharing some source licenses which will be made available soon. This move is believed to face a much bigger competition from its rivals such as Sun Microsystems. Microsoft’s liberal motion appear to be geared toward keeping a solid grasp [...]

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Other names for free or open source software

Friday, September 10th, 2010

Free or open source software can also be called “Software Libre”. The European Commission used the term “FLOSS” (Free/Libre/Open-Source Software) in a study on the topic. The term “FOSS” (or F/OSS, Free and Open Source Software) also exists, but has been criticized as Free/Open seems to imply free-of-charge, while Free/Libre makes it clear the reference [...]

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Proliferation Of The Term

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

While the term applied originally only to the source code of software,[5] it is now being applied to many other areas such as open source ecology, a movement to decentralize technologies so that any human can use them. However, it is often misapplied to other areas which have different and competing principles, which overlap only [...]

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Words that made computing history

Sunday, December 20th, 2009

Hello everybody out there using minix – I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I’d like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat [...]

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Hewlett-Packard on open source

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

In an interview with Open Enterprises, Director of Engineering at Hewlett Packard’s Open Source and Linux Organization, says that the company will invest in new Open Source services to support lifecycle and governance. This is a good example of Enterprise support for open source platforms. Over the past 6 years, HP has developed internal processes [...]

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