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Microsoft, Focused On Robotics, Goes With A Free Model

May 21st, 2010 Admin
As we reported yesterday when discussing the new open source Qbo robot, it joins a growing field of increasingly capable robots that run on free, open source platforms. In Qbo’s case, Linux is the underlying platform, and an open source software stack sits on top of it. The fact that both the operating system and software stack on top of it are free means that substantial costs in producing Qbo robots are driven out of the equation

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Microsoft, Focused On Robotics, Goes With A Free Model

May 21st, 2010 Admin
As we reported yesterday when discussing the new open source Qbo robot, it joins a growing field of increasingly capable robots that run on free, open source platforms. In Qbo’s case, Linux is the underlying platform, and an open source software stack sits on top of it

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Free Online Journal Targets The FOSS Legal Community

March 30th, 2010 Admin
Recently, we covered a number of legal resources that can help keep open source projects and developers out of harm’s way.

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Free Online Journal Targets The FOSS Legal Community

March 30th, 2010 Admin
Recently, we covered a number of legal resources that can help keep open source projects and developers out of harm’s way. From new types of licenses to free guides online, the number of legal tools specific to FOSS is growing, and now, lawyers focused on open source joining forces online. As Luis Villa, a lawyer at the Mozilla Corporation notes in a blog post , there is even now a journal focused on open source law called International Free and Open Source Software Law Review

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Open Cloud Sync and Standards Matter More Now Than Ever

March 17th, 2010 Admin
We’ve written numerous times about how significant open source and open standards are becoming in cloud computing , and about how many companies and organizations are pursuing hybrid public/private cloud solutions. For those, flexible and open software platforms are extremely promising. Today, in an interesting post, Canonical’s Matt Asay notes that whether an organization’s approach to synchronization is open is critical to cloud computing.

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