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Evaluating the harm from closed source

Evaluating the harm from closed source | The World of Open | Scoop.it

Some people are obsessive about never using closed-source software under any circumstances. Some other people think that because I’m the person who wrote the foundational theory of open source I ought to be one of those obsessives myself, and become puzzled and hostile when I demur that I’m not a fanatic.

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Rod Serling on censorship and where it really comes from

In a 1959 interview with Mike Wallace, The Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling described his experiences fighting the "antiseptic, rigid" qualities of censorship.

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Europe votes on the future of its internet tomorrow

Europe votes on the future of its internet tomorrow | The World of Open | Scoop.it
Europe's internet is about to go on trial, and activists are very worried about its future.
On Tuesday, European lawmakers will vote on a proposal that aims to protect net neutrality — the...
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The 50 Most Popular MOOCs of All Time

The 50 Most Popular MOOCs of All Time | The World of Open | Scoop.it
These Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are tried and true and have been taken more than any others online. From top research universities and Ivy League schools, check out our ranking if you're looking for your next class online.
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Search 20+ free stock photo websites in one place

Search 20+ free stock photo websites in one place | The World of Open | Scoop.it
Librestock is a multisite search engine that scans and indexes the stock photos from 20+ different websites. We provide you with the biggest searchable database of high-quality free stock photos on the internet
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Satellite crop health: open source toolchain

Satellite crop health: open source toolchain | The World of Open | Scoop.it
Satellite imaginery is becoming an increasingly important tool for farmers everywhere, allowing them to monitor the health of their crops. It used to be, however, a very expensive service, out of reach for most people. Open data and open source are here to radically change that.
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7 open-source password managers to try now that LogMeIn owns LastPass

7 open-source password managers to try now that LogMeIn owns LastPass | The World of Open | Scoop.it
Some LastPass users were clearly not pleased to find out last week that the password management app had been acquired by LogMeIn. Fortunately, there are several alternatives to choose from.
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EclipseCon Europe 2015 / OSGi Community Event 2015

EclipseCon Europe 2015 / OSGi Community Event 2015 | The World of Open | Scoop.it
EclipseCon Europe 2015: Meet us there and learn more about our IoT strategy and get deeper insights into our Eclipse IoT and OSGi community projects.
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Mars in the movies: Interesting facts about the Red Planet's depictions on the ... - Deseret News

Mars in the movies: Interesting facts about the Red Planet's depictions on the ... - Deseret News | The World of Open | Scoop.it
What was the first movie ever set on Mars? What is the "Mars curse"? These and other fascinating bits of trivia about Mars and the way it's been depicted in movies over the last 100 years.
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October 2015, “Staff Pick” Project of the Month – TeXstudio

For our October “Staff Pick” Project of the Month, we selected TeXstudio, an integrated writing environment for creating LaTeX documents.
Next week we will post the complete interview about the project’s history, purpose, and direction.
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Today Is the Day We Got Rid of the Surveillance State GDR.

Today Is the Day We Got Rid of the Surveillance State GDR. | The World of Open | Scoop.it
Today is German Unity Day: A quarter of a century ago, Germany became one and by this, it became a
truly democratic country. The oppressive system of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was ended and with it an immense
surveillance apparatus disappeared. This is an extremely joyful moment to all Germans, yet, it also has to remind us that
we can't take the freedoms we currently enjoy for granted.
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IoTTLY – the first IoT Open Source Distribution for Makers and the importance of going open!

IoTTLY – the first IoT Open Source Distribution for Makers and the importance of going open! | The World of Open | Scoop.it
Recently we have presented the important project launched by our friends Stefano Terna and Daniele Grieco: IoTTLY, an open source distro dedicated to IoT for Makers. They have launched a Kickstarter campaign too but it didn't go according our expectations. Anyway, Stefano and Daniele don't give in and are going on with the project. In the next days, they are going to: publish the source code on GitHub  and release a cloud version of IoTTLy available for everyone setup a community support platfo
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Vagrant: A powerful tool for configuring development environments - opensource.com

Vagrant: A powerful tool for configuring development environments - opensource.com | The World of Open | Scoop.it
Programmer and All Things Open presenter Seth Vargo shares why developers may want to consider making virtualization tool Vagrant a part of their workflow.
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GNOME 3.18 Open-Source Linux Desktop Gets a Makeover - eWeek

GNOME 3.18 Open-Source Linux Desktop Gets a Makeover - eWeek | The World of Open | Scoop.it
Code-named Gothenburg, the new open-source desktop environment benefits from 25,112 changes from 772 contributors.
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Tech Giants Sign Letter Against EU Laws To Hand Huge New Powers To ISPs

Tech Giants Sign Letter Against EU Laws To Hand Huge New Powers To ISPs | The World of Open | Scoop.it
New European legislation which threatens net neutrality is set to go before the EU Parliament tomorrow, October 27. The EU is planning new rules it claims..
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doublespeak ou newspeak

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mirador

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Mirador is an open source project released under the GNU Public License v2. It is the result of a collaboration between the Sabeti Lab at Harvard University, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and Fathom Information Design. Initial support was provided by the Center of Communicable Disease Dynamics and the MIDAS network funded by the National Institutes of Health.

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Hoover Archives Poster Collection Back Online

Hoover Archives Poster Collection Back Online | The World of Open | Scoop.it

The posters represent more than eighty countries and range in date from the late 1800s to the late 1980s. The posters can now be accessed using our online poster database.

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Project of the Week, October 19, 2015

Here are the featured projects for the week, which appear on the front page of SourceForge.net:
Octave-Forge
Octave-Forge is a central location for the collaborative development of packages for GNU Octave.
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“Community Choice” Project of the Month Vote – December 2015

The vote for December 2015 Community Choice SourceForge Project of the Month is now available, and will run until November 15, 2015 12:00 UTC.
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Open Source Software Foundation Implements suiteCRM to supports Code4Health | Open Health News

Open Source Software Foundation Implements suiteCRM to supports Code4Health | Open Health News | The World of Open | Scoop.it
#OpenSource Software Foundation Implements @suiteCRM to supports @Code4Health http://t.co/zvYHpL7vAO @NHSOpenSource #OpenHealth #CRM
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Philadelphia public spaces are canvas for Open Source art exhibit - Newsworks.org

Open Source http //muralarts org/opensource a citywide public art exhibition under way in Philadelphia right now features 22 works by 14 artists all in public spaces throughout the city It s one of
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Introducing Spot, the four-legged robot dog: family pet or potential battle aid? - Evening Standard

Introducing Spot, the four-legged robot dog: family pet or potential battle aid? - Evening Standard | The World of Open | Scoop.it
Laser eyes and superhuman strength: Hollywood believes robots will be our future overlords. But today’s bots are more likely to mow the lawn than reduce us to smouldering ash.
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IMUNES - IP network emulator / simulator

IMUNES - IP network emulator / simulator | The World of Open | Scoop.it
Kernel based network emulator / simulator. General purpose IP network emulation/simulation architecture for real-time large scale experiments.
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Inside The GitHub Systems Where Open Source Lives - The Platform

Inside The GitHub Systems Where Open Source Lives - The Platform | The World of Open | Scoop.it
Sometimes the best way to cope with scale is to keep things simple and do everything you can to avoid it. This is the approach that GitHub, the repository
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