Iridium offers an open development platform for custom location-based solutions providing real time tracking.
But Double Fine went further, including the idea of an open development process to complement the open financing process.
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UNESCO's Office in Apia funded the original development of the Open Content Licensing for Educators, and enabled the OER Foundation to adopt an open and collaborative development process including volunteers from the OER Foundation, WikiEducator, the OpenCourseWare Consortium and Creative Commons.
Since 2009, Bitcoin.org has served as the focal point for the collaborative open source development effort.
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But it could get there as an "open services development platform, " which Stahlman believes is the future of enterprise computing.
Sanchez said Apple has no plans to use Linux in the future, and that it will not be funding external open source development efforts.
If they succeed, they will have done a near impossible thing: to merge open source development practices and for-profit products without users feeling ripped-off.
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Nina is also the first solution that provides an open software development kit (SDK) to support the rapid integration of virtual assistant capabilities into existing mobile applications.
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Aside from hardware manufacturer gripes, Torvalds goes on to discuss his work with open source development in greater detail -- the full talk is right after the break.
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Linux was chosen by the NSA because its open-development environment provided an opportunity to demonstrate that the security functionality added by SELinux can be successful in a mainstream operating system.
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"Verizon Wireless has a demonstrated commitment to innovation, and we're excited to combine our open product development platform with the nation's best wireless broadband network, " said Peter Semmelhack, founder and chief executive officer of Bug Labs.
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"IBM believes that leadership with Linux solutions begins with effective collaboration in the community, and IBM's ten year history of working with the Linux community has resulted in a strong, mutually beneficial relationship, " said Daniel Frye, vice president, open systems development, IBM.
One area that appears to make sense for incubators is open source software development.
This situation sounds improbable, but it's how open source software development takes place.
Open-source development relies on a loose-knit federation of programmers who work to improve the software as a labor of love.
Green u-City will also provide an open-source development platform for local developers to create further apps, either for city managers or for citizens.
With a feature-rich processor, the BeagleBone computer platform allows developers to fully utilize the technology within a full-featured, open hardware Linux development kit.
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"The dramatic growth of open source software development can now be seen in internet-based, always-connected mobile and consumer products, " said Tom Lantzsch, executive officer, Linaro.
"ARM and our partners have a long history of working with, and supporting, open source software development for complex SoCs based on the ARM architecture, " said Warren East, ARM CEO.
Hours after he uttered those words, Wipro, an Indian pioneer of software services said it would open a new development centre in Atlanta, Georgia, that will report to its headquarters in Bangalore.
Like Microsoft before it, Google cultivates developers, with all-day mapping conferences, lunches with Schmidt, work on new coding languages and open-source development, and almost daily postings of new code and product information on a company blog.
It's open for application development.
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The use of open source in software development has demonstrated that, at least in some industries, open developers can effectively compete against industrial giants.
It is hoped the project will ease congestion in Lincoln and open up land for development.
As Mr Montgomery points out, there are two ways of thinking about open-source software development.
The railways were persuaded to move some of their tracks to open up space for development.
It tends to foster debate, forgive failure and cultivate the development of open-mindedness and creativity.
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Earlier this year, however, Microsoft indicated it planned to open up Windows Phone development to other chipmakers.
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On the basis of this forum, CORE was founded to promote the development of open sharing of educational resources in China.
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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