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Do Alternative Software Licenses Represent Open Source's 'Midlife Crisis'?

And, like a new cherry red two-seater sports car next to a minivan in ... proprietary software companies, albeit with an open source loss-leader. But instead, these companies are trying to license the... read more

OpenLogic Scan Shows Open Source License Violations for iPhone and Android

BROOMFIELD, CO--(Marketwire - March 8, 2011) - OpenLogic, Inc., the leading provider of enterprise open source software support, scanning and governance solutions, today announced the results of a sca... read more

Trust but verify: Machine learning’s magic masks hidden frailties

Web-scale giants such as Facebook Inc., Google LLC and Microsoft Corp. have stoked the frenzy by releasing robust machine learning frameworks under open-source licenses. Enrollment in machine ... read more

Apple is hiring engineers to coach Siri about sports

Apple has published four job postings that reveal the company’s intent to make its Siri personal digital assistant more capable when it comes to fielding queries about sports ... with the public under ... read more

Article 13: Balkanising the internet or a champion for copyright holders?

Last year the European Parliament voted through the initial draft version of the new Directive, complete with the controversial ... use which do not provide direct access to the public, open source so... read more

Plume and Samsung Launch OpenSync™ Open Source Initiative

OpenSync™ is available under a BSD-3 open source license and brings an open and extensible framework ... the RDK community is increasingly focused on new innovation for gateways and in-home mesh netwo... read more

The Money In Open-Source Software

Some of the best open-source companies had a clear idea of how they were going to make money from their early days. So while Red Hat maintained a vibrant open-source community around Fedora, updating ... read more

Mysterious announcement from Truecrypt declares the project insecure and dead

The Sourceforge project page for Truecrypt now sports a cryptographically ... The response to the Truecrypt news is mostly frank bafflement. The software is licensed under an obscure "open source" lic... read more

Rob Pegoraro: Google touts WebM, a single, open standard for Web video

One would replace the current mishmash of online video formats, most tied down with proprietary licenses and royalty requirements, with a single, open-source ... new applications that could be provide... read more

TrustNote’s TRC20 Standard: Custom Token Innovation Made Easy

With the launch of its TRC20 token specification, TrustNote is opening a new world of possibilities for tokenized ... means that the project has been released using a MIT open source license, which an... read more

Venture Capital Deals Of The Week: Alibaba And Instacart Lead The Way

Alibaba sports ... core IP based on RISC-V, an open source CPU architecture. The funding round will help the company bring its products to market. As part of the funding, SiFive and Western Digital si... read more

Why Pinterest just open-sourced new tools for the Elixir programming language

Pinterest’s notification system now uses Elixir to deliver 14,000 notifications per second. The notification system runs across 15 servers, whereas the old system, written in Java, ran on 30. The new ... read more