Open Source Daily Journal

In a move to expand their corporate might, the ever present Google has acquired the mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility. This results in their acquiring at least 17,000 patents that were owned by Motorola. There is also the issue of the pending 7,000 that are under the process of evaluation, further expanding the reach of the internet giant in this their latest foray into the mobile market.
Google has long been in the sights of other internet giants such as Apple and Microsoft when it comes to patent court cases. With the addition of these new ones, they are getting more to complain about. Now is the move aimed to simply protect their booming systems such as Android, only they can tell but experts are speculating that they are readying

It may be the previous mindset that open source was only for use with small scale implementation but with many big industries eying the potential in terms of savings of open source development it has entered the mainstream of the computing industry. Many industries such as one airline owned by a rogue British businessman has expressed great interest in applications developed on open source platforms.
Savings that amount to a fraction of what a software system used to cost can be substantial, with no need for extensive and expensive licenses. Support becomes an issue though for should the problem be with the platform, which is not owned by one company but rather a community of individuals and companies it becomes quite vague in the long run in that area.

Linux is the quintessential open source software. Talk about open source and Linux will most likely be mentioned or cited as an example. Linux has been widely described as the geek’s choice for an operating system. It has hipster cool credibility, unlike Windows or even the Mac OS. The widely regarded opinion is that Linux is hard to use and requires above-average computer skills.
This may be true when Linux was still in its infancy. But looking at the new flavors of Linux will show that it has transcended that earlier view. It is now highly usable and may even be described as being as easy as Windows in certain departments. It’s high time that computer users check out Linux.

There has been a lot of discussion on the security issues that face open source systems and many industry experts are saying that they are not founded on facts. First, the developers of open source systems did start out as a sort of backyard projects, developers looking for things to do when they were out of their desks but really couldn’t leave them.

In today’s environment however, with open source software going mainstream security has not been much of an issue due to the fact that it becomes what it was designed to be. Security is defined by the open source developer who has tools all over the internet in making their system secure from hackers. Enterprise security is available through the efforts of the many advocates of the platform such as Linux and the many other open source systems in use today.

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Open Source Software or OSS which refers to software that source codes are distributed with no charge or limitations on modification has spawned a significant amount of interest for the past years. It sells this approach as a business model that emphasizes quicker growth and lower overhead as well as a closer customer relationship and exposure to wider market. The concept of Open Source is based on the philosophy of free software wherein it advocates freely available source code as a fundamental right with an inclination of course to a more commercial approach including a business model and development tactic. Encompassing development methodology, this software can be incrementally enhanced and more easily tested that result to a highly dependable product.

MIT soon collaborated with Stanford University’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Carnegie-Mellon University. They all thrived to develop software that is able to communicate with each other with the use of the ARPAnet. ARPAnet, built by the Defense Department in 1960 is the first transcontinental high speed data network. It was formerly intended as an experiment in digital communication until is rapidly grew to link hundreds of universities, research laboratories and defense contractors. With this, it allowed free exchange of information along with exceptional speed and flexibility. Programmers then began to dynamically contribute to different shared projects. And all these led to casual principles and guidelines for dispersed software development rooting from the Hacker Ethic.

That is a very difficult question to ask for big businesses who normally have complex customized programs that allows them to function as a business. But the economic conditions have been forcing a lot of thought into the technology, considering both the advantages and disadvantages of the many successful open source projects that have already been out on the market. To ask that question would result in varying answers depending on who you ask, for large companies that use large programs and technology would not be so keen on adopting such a public technology. This does not however mean that they are not considering them for even some of the staunchest developers of closed systems have been trying out some of these technologies on a limited basis, proving the benefits, which is mainly cost are enticing enough for them to take notice. Continue Reading »

More and more businesses are considering the benefits in terms of cost in re-deploying their previously closed programs onto open systems that can be quite prone to hacking. Security has been on the agenda and is one of the major focus of developers and technology experts who have been promoting the new and improved open-system designs. Securing a very large distributed system that uses open technology is a very large task but developers are getting there, finally agreeing on how best to approach the security of the many projects being deployed or are already in place. Continue Reading »

The methods at which businesses and communities are trying to reach out and garner members vary depending on the technology they are promoting. Imagine FireFox that has been a long time in the making, a product of the Mozilla Foundation that came up with a web browser that was not only faster but much better than the long standing leader of the pack, Internet Explorer. They considered the changing web and how people are using the web, designed a framework, published the designs and asked for comments, suggestions and just about anything you might want to say to improve on the proposed browser. Get back down and incorporate the best suggestions in terms of improvement and release the browser into the wild that is the internet, viola, success in the making. Continue Reading »