Leftovers: OSS
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Should open source leaders go native?
Anthropologists who traveled to the jungle to study various tribes would debate (half jokingly) whether to "go native"—that is, whether to adopt the lifestyle of the people they were trying to understand, or to keep their distance (and scientific objectivity). It was a research design choice, but also a fundamental choice about one's identity as a more-than-interested visitor.
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Plant volunteers, grow an organization: an interview with Stormy Peters
Stormy Peters and Avni Khatri will present Grow an organization by planting volunteers at OSCON 2015. Peters is the vice president of technical evangelism at the Cloud Foundry and Khatri is president of Kids on Computers. In this talk, they share their experiences and lessons for growing a healthy garden of volunteers.
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What is upstream & downstream software?
This question came up during conversations with Red Hat's Chris Wright, a Linux kernel developer and a principal software engineer with the company.
Of course, in non-tech business speak, upstream tends to refer to production processes that involves searching for (and extracting) raw materials -- in software, this is not the case.
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Mozilla Fixes Flaws With Firefox 39, Previews Firefox 40
The Logjam SSL/TLS vulnerability is among the 13 security advisories in latest stable release of the open-source Firefox Web browser.
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Firefox 39 released
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Firefox 39 arrives with sharing integration and four major bug bashes
MOZILLA HAS RELEASED the latest edition of Firefox, version 39, squishing four major bugs and adding the new features first seen in recent beta versions.
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Firefox 39 bites four critical bugs
The best reason to adopt the new version is its repairs for three critical bugs. Detailed here, the flaws include memory corruption and “exploitable crashes.” A further two “high” severity flaws, half a dozen rated “moderate” and a single “low” severity bug have also been squashed.
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A new book, celebrating five years, and more OpenStack news
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ECM Buyers and the Open Source Question
It sparked a heated debate. At that point, Open Source Software (OSS) wasn’t as widely received in the enterprise as it is today and many thought that its perceived advantage was limited to price (as in “it’s free software”).
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Student-collaborator rights, Kisumu app, and new Zotero release
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