Leftovers: OSS
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Dangers of in-person meetings for an existing community
It is inarguable there is a lot of value that we humans get from meeting with people in person. For a free/open source software project, this is often cited as the glue that holds together people whose normal interactions are textual (email, IRC) and lower-resolution than an in-person interaction gives. People who are bound together not by an employment agreement but rather a social agreement.
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How to run your small business with free open source software ["This article was originally published in November, 2013. It was last updated in April 2017."]
Take a look at the next desktop PC or laptop you come across. Odds are good it won't be running an open-source operating system. Microsoft's closed-source Windows has by far the highest share of the PC client operating system market, followed in a distant second by Apple's macOS. Linux and other wholly open source operating systems have only a tiny market share.
It's not hard to see why. Despite the advances made by distributions such as Ubuntu, desktop Linux is still miles behind Windows and macOS in terms of the look, the feel and the slickness that most office workers have come to expect. The vast majority of companies simply aren't prepared to make office workers use an open source OS — and most office workers aren't prepared to use them, either.
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Agreement on software preservation signed at UNESCO
UNESCO and the National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA) today signed an agreement at the Organization’s headquarters to contribute to the preservation of the technological and scientific knowledge contained in software. This includes promoting universal access to software source code.
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How the 'itch-to-scratch model' can solve our UX woes
Open source is a developer-centric solutions model, which, in a nutshell, could be described as building communities of developers to solve problems.
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Baidu to Open Source Its Self-Driving Technology
Baidu Inc. will share software technology it is developing for self-driving cars in a bid to catch up with competitors including General Motors Co. and Waymo, the self-driving unit of Google parent Alphabet Inc.
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Baidu To Open-Source Autonomous Driving Platform Apollo to Spur Industry Innovation
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A Chinese internet giant just made a big move to compete with Tesla in the self-driving-car space
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Baidu Has Decided To Open-Source Its Self-Driving Car Tech
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