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Tag: Open Source

  • Don’t blame security breaches on open source technology – the problem is lack of oversight

    Don’t blame security breaches on open source technology – the problem is lack of oversight: A hacker attack recently shut down the ad service OnRamp completely. In an official statement posted on its forums a few weeks ago, OpenX, the parent company of OnRamp, questioned the security of open source technology. Another one about how to deal with…

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  • Open Source Strategies for Software Vendors

    Open source strategies: From time to time I advise a software vendor on how, whether, or to what extent it should offer its technology in open source. In summary, I believe: The formal differences between “open source” and “closed source” strategies are of secondary importance. The attitudinal and emotional differences between “open source” and “closed…

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  • Pushing back against licensing and the permission culture

    Pushing back against licensing and the permission culture – Luis Villa: The open license ecosystem assumes that sharing can’t (or even shouldn’t) happen without explicit permission in the form of licenses. What if “post open source” is an implicit critique of that assumption – saying, in essence, “I reject the permission culture”? If so, license…

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  • Forking and the Future of Permissively Licensed Open Source Platforms

    Cloud Foundry, Forking and the Future of Permissively Licensed Open Source Platforms: A week ago today a minor skirmish broke out on Twitter between Apprenda – purveyor of PaaS software – and advocates of the open source Cloud Foundry project, originally created by VMware. The major point of contention concerned forks; specifically forks of the…

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  • One Server Per Person

    One Server Per Person: I have always been a bit curious of the open source communities support of Google. I have even seen distros include “web apps” that launch a browser to open Google Docs or Gmail. I can understand the reasoning, to a point. Good desktop applications are difficult to come by on Linux,…

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  • Open Source Software: Compliance Basics And Best Practices

    It’s been a while I read something about Open Source in the enterprise, so here you go: As the saying goes, free software is not free, and using open source software requires that organizations understand the legal framework of open source. via Open Source Software: Compliance Basics And Best Practices.

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  • Open Source Facial Recognition

    Following Facebook’s Shut Down Of Face.com’s Facial Recognition API, Lambda Labs Debuts An Open Source Alternative. Free to use, and Open Source? Very cool, but I doubt that’ll work out financially, unless the guys have very soon have very deep pockets, or a credible products that larger companies will want to pay money for. Good…

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  • Cloudera’s Olson Says Data Will Transform Industry

    Great Bloomberg interview with Cloudera CEO Mike Olson on open source and big data. Via the 451 group

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  • Unix Philosophy in the DB World

    There’s a good article about the Unix philosophy in the DB world from the beginning of the year, remarking the importance of simple and standard protocols for the upcoming breed of NoSQL DBs. I thought this is a good follow-up to last week’s Open Source Databases, so here you go!

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  • Open Source Databases Have Come of Age

    Matt Benjamin writes about the OSS DB ecosystem in Open Source Databases Have Come of Age, including NoSQL. Good summary!

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