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Open source: the way forward in the search for new treatments for the infectious diseases of poverty?
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| Probably the best known open-source
| software is the Linux operating system but
| this is only one example. The mountain of
| software that open-source developers have
| created is robust enough to be used by big
| corporations and cutting-edge enough to
| have become incorporated into the latest
| mobile phones and laptops. But importantly,
| it has saved on development costs. It has
| been estimated that producing the open-
| source software we have today, using
| traditional means, would cost $387 billion
| and take 2.1 million people-years of
| development.
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http://www.tropika.net/svc/news/20100317/Anderson-20100317-News-OpenSource
Applying Best Practices to Open Data
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| Some of that is already going on. In a
| follow-up, Torkington links to a few posts
| from the Open Knowledge Foundation, which
| has come up with a Open Knowledge
| Definition (OKD) taken from the Open Source
| Initiative's Open Source Definition. This
| includes everything from content like
| movies and books to government info, and
| sets 11 criteria that a work has to meet to
| be considered "open."
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http://ostatic.com/blog/applying-best-practices-to-open-data
SXSW: Bug Labs Says Content Will Drive Open Source Hardware
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| Thatâs the viewpoint of Peter Semmelhack,
| founder and CEO of Bug Labs, whose modular,
| open source hardware company aims to fix
| that shortcoming by making it easier for
| people and companies to create their own
| electronics products using a Linux
| processor module, a camera module, a
| touchscreen LCD module and so on.
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http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/03/sxsw-bug-labs-says-content-will-drive-open-source-hardware/
Recent:
6 of the Best Free Linux Electronic Medical Records Software
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| In developed countries, healthcare workers
| represent a significant proportion of the
| working population. For example, in the
| United Kingdom, more than 1 million people
| work for the National Health Service, a
| publicly funded healthcare system. Medical
| software therefore has a huge market to
| tap. Whatever stage of a country's economic
| development, health care is one of the most
| important elements in society.
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http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20100306075023663/ElectronicMedicalRecords.html%5C
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