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Working with PDF files on Linux

Network World

The PDF (portable document format) standard was created in the 1990s by Adobe cofounder John Warnock to make it possible for people to share reliably formatted documents across a wide range of platforms. It became an open ISO standard in 2015. Today, you can save documents as PDF files from many applications (e.g.,

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10 things to watch out for with open source gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Even if you don’t have the training data or programming chops, you can take your favorite open source model, tweak it, and release it under a new name. According to Stanford’s AI Index Report, released in April, 149 foundation models were released in 2023, two-thirds of them open source.

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IBM wins UK lawsuit against LzLabs for mainframe intellectual property theft

Network World

IBM licensed its mainframe software to Winsopia beginning in 2013, according to the court documents. The aim of the SDM is to migrate existing applications which have been written to run on a mainframe and enable such programs to be run on the x86 runtime environment without recompilation, the judgement reads.

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Los Angeles IT secures the vote with open source and the cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

Aman Bhullar, CIO of Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, has heeded the call, having led a widespread overhaul of antiquated voting infrastructure just in time for the contentious 2020 presidential election — a transformation rich in open source software to ensure other counties can benefit from his team’s work.

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Four Attributes of Openness in Modern Communications

CTOvision

I posit that there are four key attributes that define openness in this context: documented, standardized, open sourced and inclusive. Any claims of openness by suppliers should be evaluated against these criteria if for no other reason than to clarify their position. A Milestone – Open Source.

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Free Courses at Linux Academy- January 2020

Linux Academy

How to Get a Linux Job. This course helps prepare you for applying for and successfully obtaining a Linux Job. Learn how to use the keyboard to work with your text documents, complete searches, replace text, and format. This course dives into LXC (Linux Containers) and its container manager, LXD. Free Mastery Courses.

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what every open source project needs

SPF13

In the last few years open source has transformed the software industry. From Android to Wikipedia, open source is everywhere, but how does one succeed in it? What Every Successful Open Source Project Needs. Open Source Companies • Redhat $13B • Cloudera $3B • MongoDB $1.6B • Docker $.5B