Open Source in the News

Open source has been in the news a lot lately here are some links worth looking at.

http://www.techworld.com/applications/news/index.cfm?NewsID=5615

http://oci.open.ac.uk/

It is important to realize the implications of these events. The adoption of an open source university will allow everyone to access the material that make up curriculums and learning plans, which will likely spur a lot of comments and feedback about the material. This pretty much provides endless free advice for improvements. The same can be said about the open sourcing of the processors. If anyone can look at the design not only will it allow individuals to better program for the chips but also provide feedback to Sun about possible improvements. The work that would normally be delegated within the company is now outsourced for free, while also gaining a lot of support from open source advocates.

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Posted by: Aaron Shaffer
Posted on: March 22, 2006 08:42 PM

I saw two nice sites the other day: opensourcewindows.org and opensourcemac.org. Great examples of some of the best OSS right now.

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Posted by: Mat
Posted on: March 26, 2006 12:40 PM

Thanks Aaron, these sites are great! I am going to add them to my links.

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