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Jean Lievens: Jack Wallen’s 10 Predictions for Open Source in 2014

#OSE Open Source Everything, Advanced Cyber/IO, Collective Intelligence, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government, Software
Jean Lievens
Jean Lievens

10 predictions for open source in 2014

Jack Wallen lists 10 reasons why he believes 2014 will be a banner year for Linux and open source.

The year 2013 was a solid year for open source. There were plenty of highs and certainly a few lows. However, I believe that Linux — continuing to build on its solid groundwork — will have the best year yet in 2014.

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Some of you may be shaking your heads at yet another prediction of world domination by a Linux zealot. But there are plenty of reasons for such a bold prediction. In fact, here are 10 reasons why I firmly believe 2014 will be a banner year for Linux and open source:

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1. Open source will dominate corporate data
2. Valve will prompt OEM hardware developers to open up
3. The Linux tablet will finally see the light of day
4. GNOME 3 will become relevant again
5. KDE will release a major game-changing feature
6. MariaDB will begin to make inroads to usurping MySQL
7. Open source will lead the way for smart machines
8. Open source will re-define cloud management
9. Linux desktop will break double-digits in the market share
10. Linux pre-install sales will steadily increase

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See Also:

Open Source Everything List & Book

Open Source Everything @ Phi Beta Iota

NATO OSE/M4IS2 2.0

Open Source Agency (OSA)

Open Source Manifesto

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SmartPlanet: The Open Source Business Model

Culture, Design, SmartPlanet, Software

smartplanet logoFreedom from shareholders: how to succeed as an open-source business

For many launching businesses in today's fast-moving tech sector, the goal is to attract investors and shareholders, and eventually selling it all to an even larger company. One tech vendor, however, is bucking this urge, preferring instead to have a positive impact on its communities — both users and the cities in which it is locating offices. 

“A lot of companies are following that typical Silicon Valley path,” says Brian Cheung, CEO and co-founder of Liferay, Inc., a Los Angeles-based company which provides portal technology to organizations. “They’ve got their investors, and they’re aiming for that acquisition or that public offering. We're very conscientious about not doing that. We're still independent, privately held, with no outside capital.” The advantage to staying private is that becoming beholden to shareholders stifles innovation, he adds.

I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Cheung at Liferay's recent confab in San Francisco, in which he expounded on his company's unique philosophy toward innovation and community development. The company, which builds and distributes its software via an open-source model, is founded on the belief that innovation and growth comes from helping to make its customers and communities stronger.

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David Isenberg: Open Source for Government

Software
David Isenberg
David Isenberg

Steven Tyler captures the essence of open source when he says, “If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light mine off of yours.”

Like a candle's flame, software won't be anymore effective if kept to itself. With that said, in the name of sharing, GovLoop is proud to introduce our latest and free downloadable guide for government:

Agency of the Future: Open Source

Today, government is embracing open source to power websites, run internal communications platforms and more. Our comprehensive guide provides:

*   Survey results from 233 government professionals.

*   Insights on how open source will affect government in the next three to five years.

*   Interviews with a senior computer scientist at NASA and chief technology strategist at Red Hat.

Download The Full Guide Here

Please take time to learn about open source and share the information with others. Sharing will lead to brighter flames of innovation.

– Steve

Visit GovLoop – Knowledge Network for Government at: http://www.govloop.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network

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Stephen E. Arnold: Open Source at Oracle and with SharePoint

Software
Stephen E. Arnold
Stephen E. Arnold

Oracle and Open Source

I will be giving my last public talk in 2013 at the upcoming Search Summit. I am revealing some data about the trajectory of commercial search versus free and open source search. My focus is not just on costs. I will address the elephant in the room that few of the sleek search poobahs elect to ignore—management.

As part  of my preparation, I read an interesting public relations and positioning white paper from Oracle. The essay is “The Department of Defense (DoD) and Open Source Software.” You should be able to locate a copy at the Oracle Middleware Web page. But maybe not. Well, take that up with Oracle, Google, and whoever indexes public Web pages.

The argument in the white paper is that open source is useful within the context of commercial software. The premise is that a commercial company develops robust products like Oracle’s database and then rigorously engineers that product to meet the tough standards imposed by the US government. Then, canny engineers will integrate some open source software into that commercial solution. The client—in this case the Microsoft loving Department of Defense—will be able to get the support it needs to handle the demands of global war fighting.

There are three fascinating rhetorical flourishes in the white paper. These are directly germane to the direction some of the discussions of commercial and proprietary versus free and open source software have been moving. I will give a couple of case examples in my talk in early November 2013, and I assume that the slide deck for my talk will find its way into one or more indexing services. I won’t plow that ground again. Below are some new thoughts.

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Stephen E. Arnold: Time to Open Source Sentiments

Crowd-Sourcing, Culture, Software
Stephen E. Arnold
Stephen E. Arnold

Time to Open Source Sentiments

Here is something new from Gigaom: “Stanford Researchers To Open Source Model They Say Has Nailed Sentiment Analysis.” Richard Socher and a team from Stanford have created a computer program that can classify the sentiment of sentence with 85% accurately. They tested the model on movie reviews with a positive or negative tone. Even more amazing is that Socher and his team are making the project available to everyone. Why not capitalize on it instead? After all, companies have been trying for years to analyze social media and would pay the big bucks for said technology.

What makes Sucher’s project different from other sentiment software is that is reads whole sentences rather than just words.

“The team then built a new model it calls a Recursive Neural Tensor Network (it’s an evolution of existing models called Recursive Neural Networks), which is what actually processes all the words and phrases to create numeric representations for them and calculate how they interact with one another. When you’re dealing with text like movie reviews that contain linguistic intricacies, Socher explained, you need a model that can really understand how words play off each other to alter the meaning of sentences. The order in which they come, and what connects them, matters a lot.”

Socher hopes to reach a 95% accuracy, but the technology will never be 100% accurate because of jargon, idioms, odd word combinations, and slang. The project is making landmark strides in machine learning, logical reasoning, and grammatical analysis.

It means better news for online translators and speech technology, but commercial sentiment analytics vendors may see a decline in their profits.

Whitney Grace, October 21, 2013

Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext

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Richard Stallman: LibrePlanet 2014: Calling all presenters, volunteers, and exhibitors

#Events, Software
Richard Stallman
Richard Stallman

LibrePlanet 2014: Calling all presenters, volunteers, and exhibitors

by Free Software Foundation — Published on Oct 18, 2013 04:50 PM

If you're passionate about free software, the Free Software Foundation wants you to be a part of LibrePlanet 2014.

We're excited to announce three new ways to get involved in next year's conference: answer our Call for Sessions, apply to join our Exhibit Hall, or join our new Volunteer Committee. We are now accepting applications for each one of these exciting ways to be a part of this annual gathering for free software advocates, contributors, and users.

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LibrePlanet is the annual conference of the Free Software Foundation and will be held in March 2014 in Cambridge, MA. This year, the theme of LibrePlanet is “Free Software, Free Society.” How can free software protect journalists, whistleblowers, activists, and regular computer users from government and corporate surveillance? How can free software, or free software values like copyleft, community development, and transparency, be used by people fighting to create free societies around the world? What challenges are standing between us and our goal of free software ubiquity? With your help, we'll tackle these questions and more at LibrePlanet 2014.

All associate members of the FSF may attend LibrePlanet gratis. Be sure to join our announcement list to be the first to know when the conference dates and venue are officially announced!

Call for Sessions

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