That is, it looks for existing open source projects that have already been adopted by customers.
Both companies were attempting to combine many different open source projects into one productized offering.
Active open source projects receive more, and more varied, scrutiny than closed source projects.
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GitHub offers both paid plans for private repositories, and free accounts for open source projects.
Thousands of modules that do specialized and common tasks have been created and donated to the open source projects.
He recently sold the company to IBM and, quickly thereafter, setup an incubator, called Simula Labs , for open source projects.
Alex built Taskforce (taskforceapp.com) and a number of open source projects.
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They contribute to open source projects, as well, to participate in problems larger than they can solve themselves, and to learn how other people solve problems.
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Linaro engineers, leveraging their extensive embedded knowledge, will contribute to a wide range of open source projects covering areas such as tools, kernel, graphics and boot code.
On open source projects, programmers build tools to solve specific problems, then make those tools freely available so others can use them and contribute their own improvements.
He recently sold the company to IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) and, quickly thereafter, setup an incubator, called Simula Labs , for open source projects.
The communities of programmers that grow up around successful open source projects often produce tools that are more secure, flexible, and cost-effective than those produced by a team working in isolation.
Open source projects require the writing of code, sure, but also developing documentation and training methods, managing and researching communities of users, testing the quality of existing code and designing the interfaces and interactions of user experience.
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The companies said they plan to provide significant resources and equipment to the lab, which will help nurture existing open-source projects.
The Open Compute Project intends to develop servers and data centers that follow the model traditionally associated with open source software projects.
The same goes for getting video out and onto portable devices -- you're being totally shown up by open-source projects like iTiVo and pyTiVo.
Linux distributions, open source and proprietary software projects will benefit from Linaro's investment, with more stable code becoming widely available as a common base for innovation.
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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Citrix, one of the primary cloud vendors, has discontinued contributing software projects to OpenStack, the open-source software foundation for cloud development, of which it had been one of the founding partners.
Open source purists may prefer to keep using DeCSS and to wait for the fruits of projects that are under development with LiViD and OpenDVD.org.
Some security researchers even believe that the CAPTCHA-breaking software was using Tesseract--an open source image recognition software sponsored by Google itself and used in its book-scanning projects--to recognize the distorted characters.
Creative projects have a life of their own, and this is nowhere more clearly demonstrated than by open source software.
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