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Revolution OS - YouTube

Submitted by Sam Rose on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 08:43
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjaC8Pq9-V0

You can watch this movie in it's entirety on youtube. It came out in 2002. I found the claim that the "adoption of curve of linux followed the adoption curve of the internet", and that the application that really made linux was apache web server.

This is really important for the "Access commons" concept. I think it also possibly informs what can be expected in some ways in other "commons" (food, energy, etc).

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The walling up of Android

Submitted by richardcadler on Sun, 04/03/2011 - 22:10
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http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/03/android-openness-witheri...?

Sort of a 'And water is wet' kind of article, but this Ars Technica piece goes into detail about how Google has allowed Android to be closed off from developers, and by refusing to release the source for Honeycomb, is contributing to its closing themselves.

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Battle over video codecs

Submitted by Sam Rose on Sun, 02/06/2011 - 23:11
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2379489,00.asp

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2379489,00.asp

"The Windows Media Player HTML5 Extension for Chrome lets Windows 7 users play H.264 videos in a Google Chrome browser. Microsoft already has similar extensions for Firefox and Internet Explorer users.
"We believe that Windows customers should be able to play mainstream HTML5 video," said Claudio Caldato, Principal Program Manager, Interoperability Strategy Team, in a blog post.

The Cloud Made Open Source "Invisible" This Year - ReadWriteCloud

Submitted by paulbhartzog on Fri, 12/24/2010 - 12:07
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http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2010/12/open-source-invisible.php

"The big open source news in 2010 is that open source became essentially invisible," writes outgoing Canonical COO Matt Asay in his 2010 year in review column for The Register. It's not that the media stopped reporting on open source Asay explains. In fact, according to Google News, the number of stories mentioning the phrase "open source" roughly doubled. What's happening is that open source is moving behind the scenes, thanks in large part to cloud computing.

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Choike - Innovation, information technology and the culture of freedom

Submitted by Sam Rose on Sun, 01/03/2010 - 00:07
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http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/2623.html

Manuel Castells gets behind the logic, the inspiration, the history, the progress and the future of Open Source. He argues that Open Source is not anti-capitalist but a-capitalist, meaning that it is compatible with different social logics and values. It is based on a form of social organization that has profound political implications and may affect the way we think about the need to preserve capitalist institutions and hierarchies of production.

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The Xapian Project

Submitted by Sam Rose on Wed, 08/26/2009 - 04:54
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http://xapian.org/

Welcome to the Xapian project website.

Xapian is an Open Source Search Engine Library, released under the GPL. It's written in C++, with bindings to allow use from Perl, Python, PHP, Java, Tcl, C# and Ruby (so far!)

Xapian is a highly adaptable toolkit which allows developers to easily add advanced indexing and search facilities to their own applications. It supports the Probabilistic Information Retrieval model and also supports a rich set of boolean query operators.

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Libraries and open source

Submitted by richardcadler on Thu, 07/23/2009 - 08:37
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http://inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2009/w-e-b-s-i-t-e-find-out-what-...

A long, but interesting, discussion of open-source software development by and for libraries, and why the author thinks open-source projects are destined to outnumber and ultimately replace proprietary ones:

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One on One with Ross Mayfield of Socialtext - FierceContentManagement

Submitted by Sam Rose on Thu, 03/12/2009 - 02:44
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http://www.fiercecontentmanagement.com/story/one-one-ross-mayfield-socia...

Ross Mayfield is the chairman, president and co-founder of Socialtext, a company he helped form in 2002 to bring Wikis to the enterprise (at at time when few knew what a Wiki was). Since then Socialtext has grown into a comprehensive Enterprise 2.0 solution that provides Facebook and Twitter-style functionality in the enterprise to over 4,000 customers. Mayfield is also a blogger, speaker and active participant in social media communities.

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