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Open source software offers reduced procurment risks
Talkback As a way for any business or government agencies to reduce their risks when acquiring open source software, I recommend they read the following: Guide to Open Source Software for Australian Government Agencies http://www.finance.gov.au/publications...
[January 16, 2009, 20:30]
Open source software may be free, but there's still money involved
Blog Serious money is being spent on employing coders to hack the kernel, and the companies responsible wouldn't do that if there was no money to be made from open source software. Open source software isn't anti-commercial, and it doesn't even just sit...
[August 21, 2009, 17:17]
Open-source encryption software gets update
News The latest version of popular open-source encryption software TrueCrypt is available for download. The free open-source disk-encryption software for Windows Vista/XP/2000 and Linux allows people to encrypt an entire hard disk partition or a storage...
[March 21, 2007, 14:23]
Open Source Software: A Source of Possibilities for Software Engineering Education and Empirical Software Engineering
White Papers Open source projects are an interesting source for software engineering education and research. By participating in open source projects students can improve their programming and design capabilities.
[January 2, 2009, 0:00]
Open Source Software: The Success of an Alternative Intellectual Property Incentive Paradigm
White Papers The open source software movement, which has gained publicity as the popularity of the Linux operating system has grown, provides an alternative to the economic incentives that dominate the thinking of U.S.intellectual property policy.
[February 5, 2009, 0:00]
Open source versus free software debate rages
News Love was defending himself and the open source movement against reproaches by Richard Stallman, the chairman of the Free Software Foundation. I know that the open source movement has no clue about marketing, they underestimate it.
[June 25, 2001, 15:05]
Recommendations for Porting Open Source Software (OSS) to Blue Gene/P
White Papers Each of the Open Source Software (OSS) components that the application is dependent upon requires a separate port - some of which will be easy and others which might not. Migrating applications from a Linux cluster to IBM's Blue Gene/P can be a...
[April 9, 2008, 1:02]
Development of Robot Controllers Based on PC Hardware and Open Source Software
White Papers In fact, most important success factors are the use of off-the-shelf hardware and open source and/or free software, as well as a design focused on reconfigurability and portability of the control software is crucial.
[May 18, 2007, 1:00]
Promoting Knowledge Sharing in Government and Non-Government Organizations Using Open Source Software: The pKADS Story
White Papers This paper reports on the development of an innovative Open Source Software solution called the Portable Knowledge Asset Development System (pKADS).pKADS is a desktop-based knowledge management system whose purpose is to promote knowledge sharing...
[August 23, 2005, 6:00]
Security Engineering and Open Source Software Development
White Papers Open source projects usually do not define tasks and workflows explicitly in contrast to the closed source software business. The paper wants to make open source software more secure by learning how secure systems are being built in an open source...
[May 20, 2009, 3:17]
HP to resell open-source email software
News Hewlett-Packard has signed an agreement to sell Sendmail's email software, the latest move by the longtime Microsoft ally to also woo open-source players. HP has a long history of working with Microsoft -- whose Exchange software competes with...
[June 14, 2004, 9:05]
Assuring Quality and Usability in Open Source Software Development
White Papers This paper reviews literature on quality and usability assurance in Open Source Software (OSS) development, focusing specifically on OSS that is targeted at a large user population, which does not consist only of OSS developers anymore.
[February 6, 2009, 0:00]
First open-source Symbian software released
News The Symbian Foundation has released its first open-source software package, the first step in the organisation's plan to eventually open source the entire Symbian mobile operating system. There is an exemption for software 'in the public domain...
[July 9, 2009, 15:36]
Intel gives PCs eyes with open-source software
News Intel has updated its open-source software to help computers use two cameras in the same way that people use their eyes to recognise objects and gain depth perception, the company said on Tuesday. The library's source is accessible to the public...
[December 12, 2001, 12:10]
Indian president calls for open-source defence software
News In another public-sector boost to open-source software, India's president, A.P.J. Kalam, a former head of India's defence research and development organisation and architect of the guided missile programme, has been a supporter of open-source...
[July 8, 2004, 8:50]
Software Quality Assessment of Open Source Software
White Papers The open source software ecosystem comprises more than a hundred thousand applications of varying quality. Individuals and organizations wishing to use open source software packages have scarce objective data to evaluate their quality.
[February 6, 2009, 0:00]
TechNet Webcast: Linux and Open Source Software: A Technical Perspective and Overview (Level 300)
White Papers This webcast offers a look at Linux and open-source software from the Microsoft Linux and Open Source Technology Analysis Center. He also discusses trends in the marketplace and provides perspective on how Microsoft views Linux and open-source...
[September 6, 2008, 1:01]
The Total Cost of Security Patch Management: A Comparison of Microsoft Windows and Open Source Software
White Papers There is conflicting information in the IT community about whether security patch management in Microsoft Windows client and sever operating systems is more expensive than their open source software (OSS) counterparts.
[July 9, 2007, 0:55]
Hard Real Time Quick EXAFS Data Acquisition With All Open Source Software on a Commodity Personal Computer
White Papers For ease of future growth and flexibility, almost all software components are open source with very active maintainers. This paper describes here the data acquisition subsystem of the Quick EXAFS (QEXAFS) experiment at the National Synchrotron...
[October 14, 2008, 1:01]
Using Open Source Software for Scientific Simulations, Data Visualization, and Publishing
White Papers Primarily, this is open source software. There is a growing number of software packages that can be legally downloaded from the Internet and used in educational and research projects under licenses that involve no costs and few practical restrictions.
[February 5, 2009, 0:00]
