At the Convergence 2008 conference on automotive electronics yesterday, BMW revealed it is looking for partners as it pursues an open-source car computing platform.
BMW seeking partners for open-source car software platform
Open source proves flexible, affordable for NIH & DoD
If NIH had used proprietary software to build the system, it would be much smaller than it is today because of the cost, Fellini said. Proprietary software similar to the open source software used for Biowulf would run about $370 per license for the 2,200 nodes in the system. That does not include the annual cost to maintain proprietary software, w
Open Source Gets Into Wall St. Office
Tough times for the financial services market doesn't mean tough times for all of the software vendors that support them. Open source trading platform software developer Marketcetera, in particular, sees an increasing number of opportunities for its technology.
Android is now available as open source
So Android is an Open Source project, right? The average consumer might not even know what that means - or even care - as long as their phone kicks butt. Butt but for the folks and devs following android since the beginning, you’ll be happy to know that today, Google released the SOURCE CODE for Android.
Open Handset Alliance releases android OS as Open Source
Google and the Open Handset Alliance just released android as open source today - just one day before the T-Mobile-G1 ships in the US. Android may change the industry like LINUX did ... wow!
Introducing Open Source to the World - Part 2
One of the biggest things I've seen that powers the resistance of people to using Linux is the desire to stick with what's familiar.
37signals releasing new, open-source WYSIWYG editor!
An open source protocol that works
Here's a review of One Net an open-source wireless protocol that actually does what it says. I've been playing around with zigbee and z-wave for some home area networking stuff but they just don't work well.
Symbian and Nokia Go Open Source
Nokia have started the non-profit Symbian Foundation with around 40 companies joining and plan to release Symbian for free in the first half of 2009.
Is commercial open source possible?
The title to this post--"Is commercial open source possible?"--is meant as bait, of course. I work for a commercial open-source company and definitely feel that it's possible. Indeed, without "commerce" I don't think open source would be nearly as mature as it has become. Cash fuels code.
