Posts Tagged Open Source
WebOS Open Source Roadmap
Posted by gavomatic57 in Hardware, Linux on January 25, 2012
Good news WebOS fans! After announcing that they were going to open source their WebOS operating system, many wondered (including myself) how HP was going to do it and on what timescale. Well, it seems that the answer is out there now for all to see.
WebOS to be Open Sourced!
Posted by gavomatic57 in Hardware, Linux, News on December 9, 2011
Good news everyone! After much deliberation and procrastination, HP has decided that the best course of action for its promising but ultimately unsuccessful tablet OS is to open it up to Open Sorcerers the world over. It’s not a straightforward process and because WebOS has some proprietary components, it’ll take some time to fill in [...]
How to choose an open source license
Posted by gavomatic57 in Internet, Linux on April 6, 2011
This amused me, so I just had to share it…
Android Fragmentation
Posted by gavomatic57 in Internet, Linux, News, Thoughts on April 1, 2011
The words “Open” and “Source” when used together can be a double edged sword. On the one hand it offers developers access to the guts of the program and the ability to make changes if they think it will improve the software in some way. Unfortunately it also offers those with a vested interest an opportunity to manipulate the software to their own ends.
“The UK is a closed source stronghold” – a few thoughts
Posted by gavomatic57 in Internet, Linux, Thoughts on March 25, 2011
There was an interesting article in the Register today. It talked about how the UK has one of the most proprietary computing environments in the world and cites examples of places around the globe that does things differently. In India the regional Government for Kerala is using Ubuntu and as I’ve talked about previously, the French police force is also migrating to Ubuntu. The article’s focus is Steve George, the vice president of business development at Canonical, plus there’s a big article in the middle of the page from Canonical themselves, so it will be a little bias.
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