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May 26th, 2010 
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People love good analogies, especially if they have a bit of humor about them. Such is the zombies are open source, humans are proprietary analogy Amy Vernon wrote about on NetworkWorld a few weeks ago. Speaking of zombies, old stories are never truly dead.
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Zombies, Open Source, and Bad Analogies
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Tags: analogy, because-the-way, between-the-two, code, george-romero, humans, like-the-undead, Network, released-today, social, vernon, zombie, zombie-poster, zombies 
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It’s always great to see open source principles applied to helping under-developed countries or nations in crisis. We’ve already talked about washing machines with an open design and software created to help reunite families after large-scale emergencies . Now a Florida-based engineer has come up with an open source design to help feed the hungry.
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The Open Source Approach to Feeding the Hungry
May 25th, 2010 Admin
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Really, is there anything Linux can’t do? You be the judge.
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Build a Linux-Powered Sprinkler System for your Garden
Posted in Open Source News Tags: computers, Data, diy, electronics, flickr, gardening, linux, Power, project, relay, source, source-digital, sprinkler, the-relay, water No Comments » May 24th, 2010 Admin
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If you cycle back 10 years, the sophistication of and available tools for working with video, audio, and graphics–including working with them online–lagged far behind what is available today. The improvement in the available tools has hardly been lost on the open source world, where some best-of-breed tools are available at absolutely no cost. In this post, you’ll find a roundup of our most significant posts on open source tools for video, audio and graphics
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The Very Best Open Source Tools For Video, Audio and Graphics
Posted in Open Source News Tags: Collection, end-item, gimp, movie-watching, static-buffer, theora, tools, tutorials, video No Comments » May 24th, 2010 Admin
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With the recent trend toward its adoption in a wide variety of companies, business intelligence (BI) software is no longer the enigma it once was. Jaspersoft is one of the BI vendors we regularly cover here at OStatic, on part because of its strong open source business model. We recently caught up with Jaspersoft’s President and CEO, Brian Gentile , to get a reading on what’s going on in the BI niche and where open source software fits into the mix
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Interview: Jaspersoft CEO Brian Gentile on the Role of Open Source in Business Intelligence
Posted in Open Source News Tags: Architecture, brian-gentile, business intelligence, embraces-hadoop, intelligence, jaspersoft, Market, Network, open-source, research, survey, tools, unique No Comments »
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