open source software

OStatic: "Just as open source software is often shared in online repositories, the BioBricks Foundation has a registry online for open source biological parts.

Here's more on how these efforts may change the world, following open source principles."

Open source software vendor Red Hat went global with its high-performance computing (HPC) product on Thursday.

OStatic: "The Health-e Information Technology Act of 2008 offers incentives for health care providers to move to an open, shared platform for health records."

Cyber Cynic: "Like what you ask? Like these five prime examples of open-source software that's every bit as good, if not better, than their proprietary equivalents."

The Open Road: "Microsoft just announced the obvious: open source is an increasingly critical (and common) component of software today, including proprietary software.

The open-source software in question is jQuery, an excellent open-source javascript library that Microsoft will be including in its Visual Studio application development platform."

In a tip of its hand toward open source software development, Microsoft announced on Sunday that it will incorporate the jQuery JavaScript library into Microsoft Visual Studio and ASP.NET.

Standards Blog: "The principles would also mean that IBM would push for more global participation in standard setting, work for rules reform to avoid undue influence by vendors, push for ensuring that open standards will be set under policies that will ensure that they can be implemented in open source software, and regularize and optimize IPR policies themselves."

Technology Review: "California's secretary of state says open-source software is needed to safeguard electronic voting systems."

The Slashdot crowd is reasonably up in arms of a paper jointly written by a Harvard Business School professor and a Stanford Graduate School of Business professor on ways to compete with open source competitors.

ComputerWorld Blogs: "Want to know one of the things I really like about open-source software? The price."