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NSA Releases A New Technology to Open Source Community

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Here is their press release : NSA Releases First in Series of Software Products to Open Source Community. The software is “open source,” which means its code is available to the public – in this case, through the Apache Software Foundation. New technology automates high-volume data flows. economic growth.”

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Open Source Doesn’t Mean A Trademark Free-For-All

Forrester IT

Open-source licenses give you rights to copy. In some cases, they define patent rights and responsibilities. However, when they mention trademarks at all, most of them exclude rights rather than include them.

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NGA Continues To Engage With Open Source Community Via GitHub

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They are: geoevents: The GeoEvents project is a dynamic and customizable open source web presence that provides a common operational picture to consolidate activities, manage content, and provides a single point of discovery. The main GitHub page for NGA is at: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. In the News.

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NGA and DigitalGlobe Release Powerful Application To Community Under Open Source License

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From NGA''s Press Release: NGA, DigitalGlobe application a boon to raster data storage, processing. Sharing the application with the open source community helps accelerate its potential to become the standard for storing, enriching and analyzing massive amounts of raster data in a distributed cloud environment.

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Open-sourced Technology Levels the Playing Field Between Tech Giants and Startups

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The contest between proprietary technology and open source has been ongoing for a decade.Today, some of the most premium technology is open-sourced and free. Even Google's highly prized Borg software is becoming open-sourced. Government push for open source software.

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DARPA Open Catalog: A repository of DARPA-sponsored software and publications

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The DARPA Open Catalog organizes publically releasable material from DARPA programs, beginning with the XDATA program in the Information Innovation Office (I2O). XDATA is developing an open source software library for big data. A description of the project is followed by the applicable software license.

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Will VMWare’s licensing changes push devirtualization of data centers?

CIO Business Intelligence

The landscape of data center infrastructure is shifting dramatically, influenced by recent licensing changes from Broadcom that are driving up costs and prompting enterprises to reevaluate their virtualization strategies. As a result, VMware customers can no longer purchase perpetual licenses or just the ESXi hypervisor on its own.

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