January 19 Open Source News

Steps to adopt open source technology standards draw flak Economic Times NEW DELHI: India's open source software lobbyists allege that the country's proposed draft recommendations for adopting open technology standards and ...

Vanilla Forums Raises $500000 For Open-Source Forum Software TechCrunch (blog) by Daniel Brusilovsky on January 19, 2010 Vanilla Forums, an open source community forum software technology, has raised a $500000 (CAD) Series A funding. ...

Linux and Open Source ZDNet (blog) This fact has split the open source industry from the open source community. The industry loves this trend, especially that part funded by venture capital. ...

Willow Garage Gives Away 10 Free Robots to Jumpstart Open Source Revolution Singularity Hub (blog) Open source robotics received a huge boost in momentum last Friday. Willow Garage, one of the driving forces behind the Robot Operating System, ...

Open Source House Launches Design Competition OStatic (blog) 18, 2010Comments (0) Architectural Web site Arch Daily points to a design competition at Open Source House for individuals or teams to create a eco-friendly ...

Technology Enthusiasts All Set to Attend Open Source Software Conference TopNews Over a hundred technology enthusiasts have gathered in Wellington today for an open source software conference that will last for a whole week. ...

Demystifying Open Source SYS-CON Media (press release) By Katherine Chin Quee In 2008, the open source community saw the year end with a headline-catching lawsuit, the Free Software Foundation files suit against ...

Why Governments Should Ban Microsoft Internet Explorer Katonda (blog) Most of the new features have come from Free and Open Source players like Firefox and Chrome or Opera. Microsoft, in a way, stagnated the browsers. ...

Drupal's Dries Buytaert on Building the Next Drupal ITworld.com Among the many open source projects on the upswing is Drupal, a content management system written in PHP; Drupal has attracted a lot of attention from ...

How Google's Exit From China Could Affect Android The Next Web Android is Open Source, that essentially means any company, even companies in China, can use Android. Google would not develop software on Android for ..