February 13 Open Source News

Equinox Expanding into Support for Koha Open Source ILS Library Journal Yesterday, Equinox Software, which has built its name and business supporting the Evergreen open source integrated library system (ILS) its founders helped ...

Free open-source word processing software gets speed and compatibility update Independent More than 300 million downloads later, OpenOffice.org – the world's leading free personal productivity software -- is updating its office suite to make it ...

Open government could lead to open-source textbooks FCW.com (blog) One I found interesting is a dialogue from the Education Department that is examining the concept of open-source textbooks and other lesson materials. ...

Open Source: Fuel for the Smartphone Explosion TechNewsWorld By Tim Yeaton Open source and mobile development seem to be a match made in heaven. No matter what development methodologies an organization prefers, ...

Why Open Source Software Isn't Exactly 'Free,' But Offers Other Advantages Insurance Networking News (blog) A few years back, I heard one software industry leader refer to open source as a "channel of last resort" for software products that failed in the ...

Symbian's strengths:'installed base,' 'open source' and 'symmetric multi ... EETimes.com Second, the Symbian operating system platform has now made a complete and rapid transformation from a proprietary platform to an open source platform. ...

Apple Should Open Its Kimono — Pronto GigaOm (blog) Picking up the thread, newly crowned Canonical COO and open source blogger Matt Asay wonders if Apple is the new Microsoft. He asks whether "Apple is the ...

Open Office 3.2: Faster, More Office Compatibility Datamation That's the case with the new open source OpenOffice.org 3.2 (OOo) office suite release this week. OOo is included in nearly every Linux vendor's ...

Google is Becoming the New Microsoft Blogcritics.org (blog) Finally, phones would be open-source. Users of those phones would not be screwed by giant heartless corporations. And the world would be a better place. ...

Code copypasta increasingly common in CS education Ars Technica Some computer science professors are attempting to bring this trend into the classroom by encouraging students to share code and participate in open source ..