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Red Hat hopes freshly announced commercial OpenStack cloud computing distribution will propel it through next decade of growth... more
NSA scandal has exploded fears of being watched on the Internet, but a new website lists ways to escape the Panopticon... more
A proposal to switch the German city's workstations to open source software was denied by the state's parliament... more
An operating system that won much praise for its reliability and break-through features could soon shuffle away... more
The president's follow-up to his frank condemnation of patent trolls is welcome, but we need more... more
Vulnerability affects recent versions of the widely used BIND 9 software and can be exploited by remote attackers to crash DNS servers... more
More contributors are lining up to support to the open source project, improving its odds against rival OpenStack... more
Google caused confusion with talk of patents, but it turns out company's VP8 video codec is safe for open source use... more
Norwegian browser maker ships the beta of a browser overhaul that includes a move to the open-source WebKit rendering engine... more
In an interview, community manager Jono Bacon reveals strength -- and risk -- of Canonical's bold challenge to Google and Apple... more
Android's openness and growing popularity is attracting mobile developers to the platform, says a Black Duck VP... more
Company reiterates its committment to user privacy but says it needs another six weeks to work out some kinks... more
Google/MPEG-LA deal showed promise, but Google's requirement for user licenses may bring a backlash... more
Powerful new big data tools demand analytics expertise -- but a growing body of shared knowledge and a new generation of self-taught experts will fill the gap ... more
CERN first made available the Web's source code 20 years ago. We can still learn from that spirit of openness today... 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 freed us... more
Driven by preference for open source software 'without bifurcated code bases,' Wikipedia embraces MariaDB, a MySQL fork free of Oracle baggage... more
A 12-year-old MSDN article still rings true -- and provides excellent guidance when JavaScript may be giving us too much to play with... more
With billions of reads and writes daily, Netflix relies on NoSQL database Cassandra to replace a legacy Oracle deployment ... more
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