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Can Red Hat do for OpenStack what it did for Linux?

Red Hat hopes freshly announced commercial OpenStack cloud computing distribution will propel it... more
How to break out of PRISM

NSA scandal has exploded fears of being watched on the Internet, but a new website lists ways to... more
Berlin won't migrate to open source, looks to open standards instead

A proposal to switch the German city's workstations to open source software was denied by the... more
HP to end support for OpenVMS

An operating system that won much praise for its reliability and break-through features could soon... more
7 patent reforms the White House should have proposed

The president's follow-up to his frank condemnation of patent trolls is welcome, but we need... more
ISC patches denial-of-service vulnerability affecting BIND 9

Vulnerability affects recent versions of the widely used BIND 9 software and can be exploited by... more
Apache CloudStack 4.1.0 emerges from incubation

More contributors are lining up to support to the open source project, improving its odds against... more
Google's VP8 codec license is OK after all

Google caused confusion with talk of patents, but it turns out company's VP8 video codec is... more
Opera Next: Minimalist design, engine switcheroo

Norwegian browser maker ships the beta of a browser overhaul that includes a move to the... more
Ubuntu 'superphone' needs a superstrategy

In an interview, community manager Jono Bacon reveals strength -- and risk -- of Canonical's... more
Open source development surges for Android and, surprisingly, iOS

Android's openness and growing popularity is attracting mobile developers to the platform,... more
Mozilla postpones by-default cookie blocking in Firefox

Company reiterates its committment to user privacy but says it needs another six weeks to work out... more
Google's open video proposal closes door on software freedom

Google/MPEG-LA deal showed promise, but Google's requirement for user licenses may bring a... more
There's no shortage of data science smarts

Powerful new big data tools demand analytics expertise -- but a growing body of shared knowledge... more
Here's to 20 years of the Web -- may it stay open and free

CERN first made available the Web's source code 20 years ago. We can still learn from that... more
Highly critical vulnerability fixed in Nginx Web server software

Nginx 1.4.1 and 1.5.0 address a remote code execution flaw that could lead to compromised servers... more
The Linux desktop is already the new normal

We're so busy seeking release from Windows that we overlooked all the ways Linux had already... more
Wikipedia dumps MySQL, hooks up with MariaDB

Driven by preference for open source software 'without bifurcated code bases,' Wikipedia... more
Who nailed the principles of great UI design? Microsoft, that's who

A 12-year-old MSDN article still rings true -- and provides excellent guidance when JavaScript may... more
Big movies, big data: Netflix embraces NoSQL in the cloud

With billions of reads and writes daily, Netflix relies on NoSQL database Cassandra to replace a... more

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Red Hat hopes freshly announced commercial OpenStack cloud computing distribution will propel it... more

NSA scandal has exploded fears of being watched on the Internet, but a new website lists ways to... more

A proposal to switch the German city's workstations to open source software was denied by the... more

An operating system that won much praise for its reliability and break-through features could soon... more

The president's follow-up to his frank condemnation of patent trolls is welcome, but we need... more

Vulnerability affects recent versions of the widely used BIND 9 software and can be exploited by... more

More contributors are lining up to support to the open source project, improving its odds against... more

Google caused confusion with talk of patents, but it turns out company's VP8 video codec is... more

Norwegian browser maker ships the beta of a browser overhaul that includes a move to the... more

In an interview, community manager Jono Bacon reveals strength -- and risk -- of Canonical's... more

Android's openness and growing popularity is attracting mobile developers to the platform,... more

Company reiterates its committment to user privacy but says it needs another six weeks to work out... more

Google/MPEG-LA deal showed promise, but Google's requirement for user licenses may bring a... more

Powerful new big data tools demand analytics expertise -- but a growing body of shared knowledge... more

CERN first made available the Web's source code 20 years ago. We can still learn from that... more

Nginx 1.4.1 and 1.5.0 address a remote code execution flaw that could lead to compromised servers... more

We're so busy seeking release from Windows that we overlooked all the ways Linux had already... more

Driven by preference for open source software 'without bifurcated code bases,' Wikipedia... more

A 12-year-old MSDN article still rings true -- and provides excellent guidance when JavaScript may... more

With billions of reads and writes daily, Netflix relies on NoSQL database Cassandra to replace a... more

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