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Timbuktu Chronicles: Open Source Automobiles
Strings Attached: Open Source String Trimmer - When the ragweeds grow to 12 feet at Factor e Farm, I guess it's time to mow the lawn. In the usual bootstrapping fashion – today's experiment was building... 2 days ago. The Park Paradigm ...
4 More Tips for Open Source in K-12 -- THE Journal
How can education technology pros help ensure the success of their open source deployments?
Stevey's Blog Rants: Wikileaks To Leak 5000 Open Source Java ... Open Source does not mean the source is somehow 'open'. That's my code, not theirs. If I make something private, it means that no matter how desperately you need to call it, I should be able to prevent you from doing so, even long after ...
Lockheed Martin goes open source, people freak out. | opensource.com
So here's the nice thing about the open source community: competition. If I think I've come up with a better way to solve a problem, it can easily compete with the incumbents. Low barrier to entry, we say. Let the best ideas win. ...
The Key To An Open Source Social Network Is Still People
At last week's OSCON conference, the big topic on the minds of open sourcers was whether or not an open source social networking offering can break down the walled gardens of popular services such as Facebook, and win. ...
Open-Source Pharmaceutical Babble. In the Pipeline:
The topic of "open-source" drug discovery is an interesting (and potentially important) one. It just keeps coming up, but one of the problems with it is that it presents a terrible opportunity for vagueness. Too much of what I've read ...
Who had the first government open source policy? | opensource.com
Brian Purchia of Burson-Marsteller has a post over on GovFresh about the value of open source to unions. His argument pivots on cost-savings. I think you could make a more expansive argument that includes risk mitigation and innovation, ...
HUGE win for Open Source « Darkwing Duck
Okay, it's good but, it's still Open Source and let me explain this a bit if I can. I've spent the past 7 years working for the US Federal Government and have been preaching open source the entire time I've worked there. ...
Open-Source Pharmaceuticals? - Project Syndicate
Much attention has been focused on the pharmaceutical industry's slowness to develop new drugs and lack of productivity. But the real problem is that pharmaceutical companies cannot sustain their R&D departments, suggesting that they ...
My Motivation for Doing Opensource « Not Lucky All The Time, But ...
What I do want to comment on is why I personally like opensource. It may shock some, but I don't care too much about all software being free…just like I don't care about all music, video content, or internet access being free. ...