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Tag Archives: open source

Chrome still yet to come out for Mac

By Ryan Murphy | Published: February 13, 2009

Today Mike Pinkerton posted new pictures of Google’s Chrome browser…..

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DoD Opens It’s Own Sourceforge

By Michael Burnham | Published: February 1, 2009

The United States Department of Defense has opened it’s own open source code repository, forge.mil, which is based on the popular open source site Sourceforge.
According to the Slashdot article, the code for the three current projects is publicly viewable to DoD personnel only. According to fcw.com, “…users must use a common access card for authentication…”
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Obama on Open Source: What is it?

By Matt Scinto | Published: January 22, 2009

While there are many benefits to open source, it would seem that not every American is very up to date with them. President Obama asked Sun Chairman Scott McNealy to write a white paper “on the ways the U.S can benefit from open-source,” according to Cnet news. McNealy states the benefits of open-source as thus:
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