Reproduced from Cnet News by Matt Asay Companies and their affiliated communities often sit uneasily together, awkward partners at the software dance. To balance the two, companies often seek to reduce corporate control of community through open-source licensing, but this strategy may be diluted by the common requirement to require community contributors to sign contribution [...]
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Announcing Project OsmocomBB: Open Source GSM Stack
February 20th, 2010
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Reproduced from LWN.net Announcing project OsmocomBB: A Free and Open Source software project to create a Free Software GSM baseband firmware. The baseband chipset is the part of a mobile phone that actually communicates directly with the GSM network. It typically includes a DSP and a microprocessor running some RTOS, drivers for the baseband chipset, the [...]
Moonlight 3.0 preview offered for rich Internet apps
February 10th, 2010
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Reproduced from Yahoo! News In a blog post this week, Novell VP Miguel de Icaza, who has been in charge of Moonlight and Mono projects, described the release as the first preview of Moonlight 3.0. Capabilities include MP4 demuxer support, although there are no codecs for it yet unless a developer builds them from source [...]
BIZcon Europe 2010 – Malta, by Ricston
January 27th, 2010
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Reproduced from Ricston Harnessing Open Source BIZcon is all about informing business leaders about significant trends and developments in business. It’s to bring to the forefront how technology in business will impact your organisation and market sector which is critical to your achievement and maintaining leadership for your business and shareholders. The theme of the [...]
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