December 14 Open Source News

A bad workman blames his (open source) tools ZDNet UK (blog) The problem with open source software application development (if there is one) you might argue is that there are so many comparatively 'ungraded' tools out ...

Opposition mounts to Oracle's MySQL acquisition Computerworld (blog) You might have thought it was just open-source advocates objecting to the deal out of the fear that Oracle, the world's biggest proprietary DBMS (database ...

Lifestreaming Project StoryTlr Goes Open Source Mashable (blog) Back in November of 2008, we covered a project called StoryTlr, which put an interesting spin on the traditional lifestreaming concept. ...

Gartner: Open source BI continues to grow CRN Australia Systems integrators and original equipment manufacturers are the driving forces behind the growth of open source business intelligence software, ...

A spectacular view of the entire Milky Way... using open source! Downloadsquad (blog) And, you'll be glad to hear, it was stitched together with open-source software. Well, not just open-source software: he needed a lot of processing power ...

Stick with Windows 7/Windows 8, No Chrome OS for You Softpedia As more and more Google Chrome OS details are released to the public, it is becoming increasingly clear that Google's own breed of a Linux open source ...

Google's Phone Doesn't Change Things Much (Yet) Seeking Alpha (blog) Because – get this – a company is going to design hardware (which so far looks like just about every other smartphone out there) which runs open-source ...

Top Geeks To Converge On Wellington Voxy Despite the increased profile of the conference, it hasn't lost the DIY spirit that characterises the free and open source community. ...