November 30 Open Source News

Taking an open-source approach to hardware Core77.com The Wall Street Journal has published an extensive article on the open source hardware movement, as exemplified by the Arduino initiative and the people ...

Big advantages in schoolbooks going digital Corpus Christi Caller Times The agency is seeking bids from both online and traditional publishers and planning to have the first open-source textbooks available to students in the ...

Are open source programmers fools and suckers? iTWire Part of his argument is that MySQL can't die because it is open source – and, Greenbaum says, this means there is no end of suckers willing to maintain it ...

Open Source as a Model for Business Is Elusive New York Times By ASHLEE VANCE SAN FRANCISCO — In many ways, MySQL embodies the ideals of the populist software movement known as open source, in which a program's creator ...

How can you benefit from Open Source Software (OSS)? The Trinidad Guardian You can benefit from Open Source Software? This question usually paints a confusing scenario in the local IT community and brings about many misconceptions ...

Open-source culture at heart of Oracle deal mydigitalfc.com By ASHLEE VANCE Nov 29 2009 open source, in which a program's creator releases it to the world for free and legions of volunteers contribute improvements ... A Doctrine for Change - To Lessig Again SYS-CON Media (press release) At the 2002 Open Source Convention Lessig challenged the audience to get involved in the political process. A tireless advocate for open source, ...