Posts in open source Category

Apr 17, 2012

Get The Source

Developers who question if they should build on open source stack, read this (via Jeff Atwood): The source code never lies. Reading source code is not easy. But you can find out what is wrong with your software or the underlying stack to solve the problem and control the environment, if you have the source code. [Continue]

Apr 2, 2012

Indian Open Government Platform

India, with collaboration with US, has initiated the Open Government Platform (via EE Times India). OGPL is a joint product from India and United States to promote transparency and greater citizen engagement by making more government data, documents, tools and processes publicly available. OGPL will be available, as an open source platform. [Continue]

Feb 17, 2012

YSlow Open Source

Yes, open sourced, licensed under BSD license. It is good to see action from the Yahoo! Developer Network. [Continue]

Jan 5, 2012

NASA’s Love For Open Source

NASA has tightened its embrace for the open source philosophy. code.nasa.gov (via Information Week), a new Web site, showcases NASA’s projects and talks about contributions from others. NASA is one of my favourite mentions as a big open source user whenever people bring up the less-secure FUD for open source projects. [Continue]

Nov 17, 2011

Adobe Unflexes

Looks like Adobe is all set to become a HTML5 company. Following their decision to stop development on mobile flash, Adobe has decided to donate Flex SDK to the Apache Software Foundation. And it is not only Flex, Adobe seems to be lightening up of a lot of technologies. [Continue]

Nov 16, 2011

Tamil Nadu To Get The BOSS

It is great to hear that the Tamil Nadu state’s IT department is going to use BOSS. It is great to hear about Government organizations adopting open source. And it is a double joy to hear that Indian Government organizations are adopting Indianized Linux.

Oct 19, 2011

Free Game Alliance Promotes Open Source Gaming

This is a novel initiative – cross-promoting open source and gaming. The Free Game Alliance is a collection of games created to sponsor and bring to everyone the concept of Open Source and to have the participating projects support each other. Hundreds of volunteers, enthusiast about game development, are working in their spare time to learn about game development, to let their imagination run free, and to develop games as they always wanted to. [Continue]

Oct 9, 2011

The Indian Supreme Court Adopts Ubuntu 10.04

The Indian Supreme Court has asked about 17,000 courts to move from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. This will be a big boost for Ubuntu. The E Committee has gone one step ahead and published helpful resources for adopting Ubuntu: Guidelines for Ubuntu deployment (pdf) 25 salient features of Ubuntu (pdf) Ubuntu Linux Installation and Features video, and A free SMS channel for Ubuntu tips and information (pdf) I admire that E-Committee has provided such information proactively. [Continue]

Oct 5, 2011

Twitter Joins JCP And OpenJDK

Twitter has been gradually leaning more towards JVM as their scalable platform. Their commitment is now more visible – they have joined the JCP and OpenJDK project.

Sep 28, 2011

Reinventing The Wheel With Tizen?

It looks like Meego will soon be abandoned to move over to Tizen development. Meego is an open source OS for mobile devices. Tizen aims to be an open source OS for mobile devices. [Continue]