In addition, VMware has championed much open source software creation, buying SpringSource, a tools and service provider for open source communities.

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But unlike those projects, OONI uses only open-source software and plans to make the raw data gathered by its tools public and accessible to any researcher.

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Fortunately, the tools to innovate and the prevalence of open source software and entrepreneurs in the gaming industry makes me optimistic about the long-term health of gaming as a lucrative and truly exciting industry.

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So we're trying to use open-source software development ideas to take the tools we've developed internally and make them publicly available.

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The Redmond crew demands a paper contract signature (remember those?), agreements on work beyond the relevant software and a packaging process that complicates attempts to use open-source tools.

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EBay also adopted new tools for big-data processing, such as the open-source software framework Hadoop and a system called Mobius that was developed in its labs.

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While an open source approach isn't the right solution for every software need, using and contributing back to open source software is one way that we're making it easier for the government to share data, improve tools and services, and return value to taxpayers.

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