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 agreements.
Nothing could [...]
Archive for February, 2010
Community grows for open-source enterprise apps
February 27th, 2010
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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 GSM protocol [...]
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 code and [...]
10 best IT jobs right now
February 2nd, 2010
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Reproduced from SFGate
IT professionals looking to find new employment or upgrade their current positions should investigate job opportunities that address growing demand for technologies such as virtualization, cloud, network security and social computing skills.
Industry watchers report that while an economic recovery won’t guarantee that IT jobs return to pre-recession levels, [...]
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