Articles tagged ‘mozilla’

The most popular open source projects are beginning to share the limelight with lesser known projects because of a phenomenon called the Long Tail. The Long Tail is key to the success of open source.

OSS and proprietary software are different sorts of animals. Evolution favors collaborators in OSS while preferring winners-take-all within proprietary species.

This year’s Foo Camp remixed brainstorming amongst peers. Focused yet relaxed discussions over a couple of days resulted in ideas and solutions, strengthened social networks and crystalized thoughts into next steps for all.

Once again LinuxWorld, held at San Francisco’s still glamorous Moscone West, represents Open Source’s hottest foundry for forging a durable blend of corporation and community. This year’s show did provide a peek into the progress of technology funded by the deep pockets of significant business interests.

The O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland this year witnessed more than 2000 hackers, geeks and entrepreneurs demonstrating the phenomenal growth of open source.

After more than twenty years, the non-English computing world of India is poised to explode in an exciting flurry of Open Source Software projects. What standards are needed? And how can progress be sustained?

The bazaar of countless small-scale OSS (Open Source Software) projects, by excess, confusion or negligible support, often obscures the true benefits of OSS. Now, however, a growing repertoire of grand OSS projects increasingly demonstrates the dividends of openness, collaboration and progress.

Red Hat’s new offering combines personal productivity tools with installation support and an year of upgrades and updates.

Interoperability, localization and support are key for the open source desktop.