Another pillar was Linux, showing that open source technology when well organized could produce something valuable.
However, although our approach is radical in the industry, our goal was never just to build open source technology.
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The idea was a free open source technology for organizers and campaigners.
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Lucene Solr is an open source technology and community that has proved its worth in heavy hitting applications inside platform companies like LinkedIn and Zappos.
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Phil has facilitated broader collaboration between cities and other government bodies around open government initiatives, standards, and open source civic technology.
Rather than patenting and licensing their designs, developers ask each other permission to mimic an idea or do so on their own, sometimes using open-source technology.
InsideView uses an aggregation of open source and proprietary technology for search and natural language processing to track social media related to the sales process.
He had the technical skills needed to solve this problem and started to build the first traffic platform that combined GPS technology with open source software.
Back then many companies ran a free, open-source e-mail relay technology but ended up spending more than they thought they would making the stuff work.
The group is working with local governments and making the technology it is building open source so that governments can use it.
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For those tracking the growing malicious elements on the Web, Chrome's innovation--and GreenBorder's contribution to the open-source browser--is a technology known as "sandboxing, " a tactic that limits Web applications' access to a computer's memory beyond a virtual border.
He started Skyrider, oddly enough, to create technology to disrupt the open-source P2P networks.
Facebook released server, data center and infrastructure technology today, making it open source for others to build on.
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Rubin spent more than three years developing the technology and support for an open-source handset platform, beginning with his days with an eight-person start-up called Android.
The firm says that, although it is not very familiar with open-source approaches in the life sciences, the technology seems to complement, not threaten, its business model.
Most people think of Hadoop as pioneering technology that is being developed through an open source ecosystem.
Dries Buytaert is chief technology officer at Acquia, a commercial open source software company providing products, services and technical support for the open source Drupal social publishing system.
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But one genome pioneer is taking the opposite approach: imitating the open-source movement of computer science, which argues that technology works best when it is given away for free so that everyone can collaborate on it.
Brian Behlendorf, founder and chief technology officer of CollabNet, says that the open-source ethos allows programmers, particularly those collaborating from different locations, to work together more efficiently.
We should be looking to expand the education experiment using new technology, better education programs, and collaboration utilizing open-source resources.
CAMBIA's approach is not pure open source, since the group relied on grants from foundations to develop the technology rather than on volunteers.
To this end, members of the WEF YGL are creating technology blueprints, which use widely available commodity hardware and open source software as the building blocks of high-performing, cost-effective cloud solutions.
At this event the open source community just jumped into the drivers seat for the next major wave of technology disruption, enablement, and adoption.
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Beth Noveck, former deputy chief technology officer in the Obama administration, called for an open-source approach to rethinking government, making its operating system as accessible to everyone as the code that powers the Arduino device.
And open source software founders get to focus on what they do best, which is creating technology and community.
SourceForge, a destination for technology professionals and enthusiasts to develop, download, review and publish open source software, much of which they use in their own organizations.
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In information technology, some firms, including mighty Microsoft, are severely threatened by open source.
Google has taken a principled and somewhat lonely stand in favor of open video standards, with most other technology companies pushing for the proprietary H.264 standard, which would enrich patent holders but harm open source software.
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