December 1 Open Source News

An Open Source Tool for Every Task School Library Journal By Steve Hargadon -- School Library Journal, 12/1/2009 For the last several years, I've organized sessions on open source software (OSS) at ed-tech ... lxer Weekly Roundup for 29-Nov-2009 LXer (press release) Open Source Poses "Huge Risk" To Organisations: A chief information officer for engineering giant General Electric (GE) has said that open source software ... Eclipse tells ex-community director to 'go away' CNET News by Matt Asay Open-source communities are founded on trust. It's therefore disappointing but not surprising, to see the Eclipse Foundation's executive ... Open source: No vow of poverty (or get-rich-quick scheme) CNET News by Matt Asay With open-source software businesses, you have two options. Actually, three, but the third belongs to Red Hat, and it applies to roughly no one ... Integrating Open Source with CLM Improves ROI and Customer Satisfaction TMCnet By Kelly McGuire, TMCnet Editor With open source provider's playing a dominant role in the evolution of software, the demographic has also added various ... Arrington ends CrunchPad project Boing Boing (blog) When there was a lot of buzz about the CrunchPad many curious gadget fans asked me about their "open source" and "open source hardware" tablet. ... Times article on open source eludes logic Patriot-News By John M. Caddell ...there is an open-source alternative, and usually a pretty good one, to just about every major commercial software product. ... Actuate's Reports, Iowa Power Fund, Caimant and Infonetics, Health Games ... TMC Net Actuate Corporation, the good folks who brought you BIRT, is announcing that it has made available for download five detailed open source reports featuring ... Twitter needs a pretty face to beat Facebook CNET News We learned this long ago in open source. What separates a good but doomed project from a truly great project is documentation (to help developers know how ...