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As Cars Get More Complicated, Maybe Open Source Is The Way
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| This is a intriguing proposition for a
| number of reasons. By releasing its
| software to the open source community, they
| could become key participants in the
| growing open source car ecosystem. By doing
| so, they could potentially benefit from the
| collective intelligence of that community
| looking at their code. Sure, Toyota may
| scoff at sharing what they consider to be
| proprietary IP with potential competitors,
| but in this case, Toyota could stand to
| gain more than it would potentially be
| giving away. After all, while software
| definitely is playing a critical part in
| automotive systems, by itself, it is not
| the selling point of a car. Even the e-
| voting industry is coming around to open
| source, after balking at the idea for
| years. For a variety of reasons, the
| automobile industry seems ripe for the
| exploration of new models right now.
| Programs like CityCarShare and ZipCar could
| be seen as "Automobiles As A Service" -- so
| maybe we'll start to see a Red Hat-like
| automobile company emerge in the near
| future.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100217/1208458199.shtml
Open source
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| Champ Schuyler Towne, 26, can pick a lock
| in two seconds. Next month, heâll launch a
| series of locksport workshops at sprout in
| Somerville.
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http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/magazine/articles/2010/02/21/open_source/
Macmillan Debuts Interactive Digital Textbook Platform
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| "We think it's a fresh approach to the
| publishing model; its the best of the open
| source approach and it will enable
| teachers, protect the author's version and
| the teacher's edits," said Marshall.
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http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/450204-Macmillan_Debuts_Interactive_Digital_Textbook_Platform.php
How to make your own e-books
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| None of the software I have will convert
| files to this e-book format: Apple should
| add this to Pages and Text Edit. Instead I
| looked at Open Source software, focusing on
| three applications: Sigil, Stanza Desktop
| and Calibre.
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http://www.bangkokpost.com/tech/technews/33443/how-to-make-your-own-e-books
Recent:
How piracy benefits Microsoft
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| Public memory has always been woefully short. With the advent and
| popularisation of the internet, it has become even shorter; people can only
| absorb information in dribs and drabs.
|
| [...]
|
| Hence, when Microsoft talked about piracy recently, few, if any remembered,
| that the company's own co-founder, Bill Gates, once admitted that he watched
| pirated movies on YouTube.
|
| Gates has also, in the past, confirmed how important piracy is to
| Microsoft: "Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China,
| but people don't pay for the software... Someday they will, though. As long
| as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort
| of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the
| next decade."
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/23137/1231/
"China has long been seen as a fertile ground for Linux and other open
source software. In a country where more than 90% of software in use is
pirated, it seems like a natural fit."
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/50004.html
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