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The Computerworld Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) is the premier forum for business and technology leaders looking for an insightful discussion of how open source technology is changing the way we do business today. With a rich and deep agenda built around the concept of emerging business models and the best strategies for incorporating the strategies for open source software into growing your business, OSBC makes the argument that every enterprise is, or should be, a data-driven business today.  As the IT industry's only forum for discussing how to reap profits from using open source software, OSBC brings together a vibrant group of the industry's top practitioners, venture capitalists, lawyers and thought leaders for two days of in-depth presentations and lively discussions and panels. By being the leading conference for educating top tier executives on the value of the open source market place, OSBC provides the latest in cutting-edge open source thinking. OSBC offers the change to connect with the developers, users and companies behind the most significant open source Big Data technologies, teaching attendees the strategies to making your business more effectively data-driven.

On Tuesday a consortium of technology companies, including IBM (IBM), will launch a new initiative designed to help shield the open-source software community from threats posed by companies or individuals holding dubious software patents and seeking payment for alleged infringements by open-source software products. The most novel feature of the new program, to be known as Linux Defenders, will be its call to independent open-source software developers all over the world to start submitting their new software inventions to Linux Defenders (Web site due to be operational Tuesday) so that the group's attorneys and engineers can, for no charge, help shape, structure, and document the invention in the form of a "defensive publication."

I recommend Glyn Moody's blogs for anyone interested in open source developments. Here he looks at the difficulty in creating an Open Source Definition (OSD) for hardware.

Explore open source software hotspots around the world through the interactive Open Source Index, or OSI, based on research by the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). When you click on a country, you can see its overall rank among the 75 countries in the index, as well as its rank for Government, Industry, and Community factors.

A review of open source game for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X Open Arena, a first person shooter based on an evolution of Quake III Arena graphic engine.

Mac Fan-boy Trolls My Opinion & What Is wrong with Open Source

There's no reason to believe that Apple's iPhone iOS is better or worse than Android from a security perspective - at least from the perspective of openness. There may be more fundamental architectural issues to distinguish the platforms but (again) they both have Unix-like heritage, so they both start from a good place.

A review of Red Eclipse, a free / open source FPS game for Linux, Windows and Mac OS.

Sugar CRM is commercial Open Source Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software for companies of all sizes, based on LAMP stack (Linux-OS; Apache-Web Server; MySQL-Database Server; PHP-Programming Language). Its rich functionality and intuitive use...

Draft Open Source Resources

A review of open source game for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Risc OS, QNX Defendguin, a Linux themed version of old arcade game Defender.

A review of open source multiplatform game Alien Arena

Bonne nouvelle pour les tenants des logiciels libres. La division antitrust du ministère de la Justice américain (Department of Justice) accède à la demande que l'Open Software Initiative (OSI) et la Free Software Foundation (FSF) leur avaient adressée en décembre 2010 concernant le devenir des brevets de Novell. Ce qui ne signifie pas que les deux organismes remportent l'adhésion du DoJ à leurs revendications mais que ce dernier est prêt à leur fournir une oreille attentive. Un premier pas dans la lutte pour la préservation du modèle open source.

Scientific Linux is a free Linux distribution which aims to be 100% compatible with and based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.free & open source software made available by Red Hat, Inc., but is not produced,maintained or supported by Red Hat. Specifically, this product is built from the source code for Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions.

Screencast Review style Tutorial on how to install and use Linux Mint 9 LXDE Isadora RC 32bit Open Source Operating System inside Sun VirtualBox Virtual Machine with Kubuntu as the host on my AMD Phenom II x4 PC.

Screencast style Review of Ylmf OS 3.0 32bit which is a Linux that looks like Windows XP theme which is based on Ubuntu Linux 10.04 Lucid Lynx. I am demonstrating the Open Source Operating System running inside Oracle VirtualBox Virtual Machine with Ubuntu 10.10 as the host.

Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that showcases the latest in free and open source software. Fedora is always free for anyone to use, modify, and distribute. It is built by people across the globe who work together as a community: the Fedora Project.

Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout. Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation.