The court's ruling has put aside, for the short run, a more potent challenge of the FCC's ability to mandate so-called software-defined devices, which use open-source software to define how a signal can be sent or received.
So we're trying to use open-source software development ideas to take the tools we've developed internally and make them publicly available.
Most of the firms peddling this model, such as Amazon and Google, use open-source software, since having to pay licensing fees would make the business unprofitable.
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To bring his idea to life, the Silicon Valley-based designer first created a 3D computer model of the Tardis's interior using the free-to-use open source computer software programme Blender.
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The use of open source in software development has demonstrated that, at least in some industries, open developers can effectively compete against industrial giants.
To create a custom wireless system, the group had to agree to use proprietary, non-open-source software.
To this end, members of the WEF YGL are creating technology blueprints, which use widely available commodity hardware and open source software as the building blocks of high-performing, cost-effective cloud solutions.
Google stated that it open to the handset manufacturers on what software they use, reminding us that Android is open source and they do not control OEM or carrier customisations.
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Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is liberally licensed software that grants users the right to use, study, adapt and distribute its design through the availability of its source code.
SourceForge, a destination for technology professionals and enthusiasts to develop, download, review and publish open source software, much of which they use in their own organizations.
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At the annual meeting of the Carbon Disclosure Project--a non-profit investor organization devoted to greater transparency in greenhouse gas emission statistics--Sun released a set of open-source software tools that companies can use to track carbon emissions.
The Redmond crew demands a paper contract signature (remember those?), agreements on work beyond the relevant software and a packaging process that complicates attempts to use open-source tools.
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Awhile back, EMC-owned VMWare bought Springsource, an open source software company that it hopes to can create an easy to use cloud developer environment for both Java and Ruby on Rails.
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