I’ve stumbled across this video several time, most recently on a blog post of an extremely talented developer and someone I’ve had the pleasure of working with. If you’re not a developer it can be kind of hard to wrap your head around what is being outline but if you stop thinking of what is [...]
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Sony Electronics Creates Open Source Development Community
Last week Sony open the doors to a new web site, as well as a new approach for the organization, called Sony Developer . Sony Developer is meant to become a hub for Open Source development efforts for Sony Electronic products. Currently, Sony has enabled the community for “SNAP” which is an application framework for consumer [...]
Open Source, Open World
Came across this great graph outlining some interesting facts around Open Source. Original article was called "Should Open Source Be An Enemy Of The State?" and is itself a good article discussing some of the paradox around recent suggestion made is US policies and Open Source. Posted via email from shocm
Sony Pictures Imageworks Releases Open Source Shading Language (OSL) to Development Community
CULVER CITY, Calif., Jan. 14 /PRNewswire/ — Sony Pictures Imageworks, the award-winning visual effects and digital character animation unit of Sony Pictures Digital Productions, released the Alpha version of its source code for OSL, its Open Shading Language, it was announced today by Rob Bredow, Chief Technology Officer of Sony Pictures Imageworks.OSL is a fundamentally [...]
Government, Open Source, and Saving the World
Imagine if the Declaration of Independence was written in “Word 1776.” What are the odds that we’d be able to open that original document today? Great quote by David Egts, Principal Solutions Architect at Red Hat, Inc., in a interview on the WashingtonPost.com web site Viewpoint. He was highlighting the importance of not only Open [...]
Microsoft showing pride in Open Source
Ok, sensative subject I know. It can be tough to mention Microsoft and Open Source in a positive sentence that doesn’t talk about one hammer on the other. However that is where we find ourselves today. In a blog post on MSDN blogs, Sara Ford the Program Manager for CodePlex which is Microsoft’s open source [...]
Caution Implementing Open Source
During this time of financial “belt tightening” we are all feeling the pinch and probably no one more than the IT organization budgets across the corporate map. IT is typically the first to get hit, and hit hard, by cut backs. It’s during this time that CIOs and VP’s who wouldn’t have given Open Source [...]
APIs or Open Source
I posted my first question on Linkedin Q&A service and I have to say the speed and quality of the replies are wonderful. So the question went like this; Is a closed source solution with good APIs a better approach than an Open Source solution? I went on to explain; Would you rank a “closed [...]
Bill Gates and Open Source
I think it goes without saying that I am a huge supporter of Open Source but believe it or not I am also a big fan of Bill Gates. You’ve got to respect what he did for the industry and what he does for the world through his charities. The guy is a geek’s version [...]
Microsoft apologizes to Open Source Initiative for policy violation
Interesting article over on ZDNet. I don’t know what surprised me more, “Microsoft apologizes to Open Source Initiative for policy violation” or to hear Microsoft actually has a “open-source and Linux team”. Microsoft apologizes to Open Source Initiative for policy violation
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