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75 Open Source Tools to Replace Apps You Use Every Day
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| Can open source tools replace all closed
| source software? That is, are open source
| tools â freely downloadable software â
| really just as good as software you have to
| pay for?
|
| In a lot of cases, the answer is yes. In
| fact, in some cases, open source tools
| offers features or performance benefits
| that surpass their commercial counterparts.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3877196/75-Open-Source-Tools-to-Replace-Apps-You-Use-Every-Day.htm
Cisco completes Tandberg takeover and offers to open source telepresence code
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| Cisco has announced it has completed its
| Â2.17bn acquisition of Norwegian video
| systems maker Tandberg and is launching a
| compulsory bid for the outstanding 8.9%
| shares it does not yet own.
|
| Marthin De Beer , Cisco's senior vice-
| president for its emerging technologies
| group, said the company "strongly believed"
| that telepresence, would allow everyone,
| everywhere, to be more productive through
| the pervasive use of video and face-to-face
| collaboration. The full Tandberg product
| line is now part of the Cisco TelePresence
| portfolio, he said.
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http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2010/04/19/240955/cisco-completes-tandberg-takeover-and-offers-to-open-source-telepresence.htm
On projects and their goals
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| More generally, every project has to have
| some idea of the problem it is trying to
| solve. In some ways, that's a far more
| important part of a project than any
| specific body of code or any specific
| developer. One of the best things about
| free software is that it's alive; it will
| evolve and, with any luck, be better
| tomorrow. A project's goals say a lot about
| how it can be expected to evolve. In your
| editor's opinion, both Subversion and
| Ubuntu have set worthwhile goals, and both
| seem to be trying to work toward those
| goals. These are good things; our community
| is richer for the existence of both.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/382090/
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