Trade secrets also protects software source code and sometimes other aspects of software, such as proprietary limited-distribution documentation.
But he knew a ton about open-source software, whose source code is given away in order to attract improvements.
The non-profit software company that develops open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping.
It works well when cities open their data to the public or when, as in the case of Wikipedia, an open-source software platform supports open-source content.
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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.
Hack-happy geeks take note, Puzzlebox encourages your creative tinkering, so it's made the software open source, opening the door to any number of applications.
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ARM, Freescale Semiconductor, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI), today announced the formation of Linaro, a not-for-profit open source software engineering company dedicated to enhancing open source innovation for the next wave of always-connected, always-on computing.
But adoption of open source software does not necessarily mean adoption of open source-based big data technologies.
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Many software companies are already prospering by developing open source software and services.
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.
The court's ruling has put aside, for the short run, a more potent challenge of the FCC's ability to mandate so-called software-defined devices, which use open-source software to define how a signal can be sent or received.
This echoes arguments made by drug firms against makers of generic drugs. (Never mind that innovation in software tends to occur in universities and start-ups, not big firms.) Microsoft is advancing it through a lobby group, the Initiative for Software Choice, hoping to dissuade governments from using open-source software.
These companies are either adding support services to an existing open source project or creating software and using open source as a marketing technique.
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In addition, VMware has championed much open source software creation, buying SpringSource, a tools and service provider for open source communities.
Android is open source software, which means developers who don't work for Google are allowed to see the source code and create a range of applications to work with it.
After being quoted in Mr Spadaro's paper, Mr Raymond took to his own website to note that he had deliberately equated cathedrals with proprietary, closed-source software directed from above, by contrast with the more chaotic bazaar of equals which produces open-source code.
Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is liberally licensed software that grants users the right to use, study, adapt and distribute its design through the availability of its source code.
In 2004, the creator of Claroline left to start Dokeos, a competing open source software.
To create a custom wireless system, the group had to agree to use proprietary, non-open-source software.
One area that appears to make sense for incubators is open source software development.
The phone promises to fuse open-source software with Google's applications on a high-end handset.
New features on the newest version should continue the momentum for this open source software upstart.
If a malicious alteration is made in closed source software, it can go unnoticed.
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In addition, NASA Ames was offering a open source software for mission control.
More than 30 groups now have their own repositories for distributing the open-source software.
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As Mr Montgomery points out, there are two ways of thinking about open-source software development.
The open source software also contains a journal and automatically saves and backs up all data.
The open source software community has traditionally assumed that their software would run on commodity hardware.
All this has led many companies to develop a much more pragmatic approach to open-source software.
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