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The New York Times's Open Source Project
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| Newspapers are either a dying breed or a changing
| breed, depending on who you talk to. The New York
| Times wants to adapt, not go extinct, and one of the
| little ways they're adapting involves a software tool
| they're releasing as an open-source application for
| their fellow news organizations -- or anyone else,
| really.
|
| [...]
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| That's all going to depend entirely on what kind of
| licensing the Times uses to release this thing. If
| they use a license model which allows people to keep
| changes to themselves (e.g., GPLv2), then guess what
| -- people aren't going to hesitate to do so, and
| they're going to have no one to blame but themselves.
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/10/the_new_york_ti_2.html;jsessionid=5GAH4DZO1Y2PHQE1GHPCKH4ATMY32JVN
Open source based in co-dependence
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| Karen Copenhaver, a partner at Choate Hall & Stewart
| LLP, and one of Mass High Techâs 2008 All-Stars, is
| an expert on technology licensing, particularly in
| software licensing and open source. Recently she
| spoke with Rodney Brown about open source as a
| business model, where it came from and where it is
| headed.
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http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2009/10/05/weekly1-Open-source-based-in-co-dependence.html
RIM needs more open source
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| I've blogged about building native mobile device
| applications using a Web technology-based
| framework such as PhoneGap from Nitobi in the
| past. When I first wrote about the open source
| PhoneGap project in March 2009, I concluded: "If I
| worked at RIM, I'd take a trip out to Vancouver to
| talk to the Nitobi dudes. This framework is
| exactly what RIM needs to counter the trend of
| developers targeting the iPhone/iPod as the
| premier environment for mobile device
| applications."
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http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source/rim-needs-more-open-source-837
Recent:
New York Times Releasing Open Source Document Viewer
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| The New York Times has announced plans to release the next
| version of its Document Viewer under an open source license.
| The new viewer will be ready for launch in a few weeks and
| offers users interactive tools for annotating pages to share
| with others.
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http://ostatic.com/blog/new-york-times-releasing-open-source-document-viewer
ONA 09: NY Times to Release Open-Source Document Viewer in 'Weeks'
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| On the other, the Times expects that other organizations that
| use the tool will build new functionality on top the Times'
| code and then, in true open source spirit, share their
| enhancements back so that all organizations using of the
| Document Viewer will benefit.
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http://www.mediabistro.com/baynewser/conferences_panels/ona_09_ny_times_to_release_opensource_document_viewer_in_weeks_138725.asp
What's the New York Times doing with Hadoop?
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| Open Sources: What got you interested in Hadoop
| initially and how long have you been using Hadoop?
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| Gottfrid: I've been working with Hadoop for the last
| three years. Back in 2007, the New York Times decided to
| make all the public domain articles from 1851-1922
| available free of charge in the form of images scanned
| from the original paper. That's 11 million articles
| available as images in PDF format. The code to generate
| the PDFs was fairly straightforward, but to get it to
| run in parallel across multiple machines was an issue.
| As I wrote about in detail back then, I came across the
| MapReduce paper from Google. That, coupled with what I
| had learned about Hadoop, got me started on the road to
| tackle this huge data challenge.
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http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source/whats-new-york-times-doing-hadoop-392
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