Key financial blockchain technology is open sourced
Likely to be the industry standard
The blockchain platform which will be a key feature of financial networks will be open sourced.
Microsoft’s Powershell goes open source
Coming to a Mac and Linux machine near you
Software King of the World, Microsoft, has announced that its Powershell automation and scripting system is going open source.
Oracle claims Google has killed Open Source
Before Oracle could do it
Oracle claims that Google’s court-room win gaining fair-use rights over a thousand lines of java APIs in Android will mean that Open Source is dead.
Open source saves the Italian military millions
Can get back to conquering Gaul
The Italian Defence Ministry surprised the world last year by announcing that they were dumping Microsoft office in favour of an open-source alternative like LibreOffice.
Open source skills in demand
Bring your own beard
A new report shows that companies are looking for more people with open source skills and the trend is likely to grow.
You have to be insane to keep Drupal 6
Attacks are coming
Drupal 6 which is still on ten percent of CMS’s is a 0-day waiting to happen.
Torvalds admits he is not a “people person”
Gosh and we never knew
The creator of Linux, Linus Torvalds has shocked the world and admitted he is not a “people person.”
GeForce GTX 900 open-source firmware images and support code released
Steps towards Open source
Nvidia has released the signed firmware images and support code which will enable the GeForce GTX 900 "Maxwell" series to run under its open-source driver.
AMD opens up the GPU
Nicolas Thibieroz announces GPUOpen
AMD’s top gaming guy Nicolas Thibieroz is starting to open up GPU technology to make sure the technology evolves.
AMD lays on the open sauce
Goes well with chips
AMD and is now RTG (Radeon Technologies Group) are involved in a major push to open source GPU resources.