The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Rwanda launches first ‘Made in Africa' smartphones
“We are actually the first who are doing manufacturing. We are making the motherboards, we are making the sub-boards during the entire process,” he said. “There are over 1,000 pieces per phone.”
Could Rwanda become the world's first open source everything superpower?
The rise of open-source computing
It is good for competition—and may offer a way to ease the tech war between China and the USA.
Now the model is spreading to chips.
Continue reading “Penguin: The Rise of Open Source Computing”
Why Is Open-Source So Important? Part Two: The Problem With Profit And Property
The relationship between open-source companies and the open-source community is not clear-cut. This is because the concepts of communal good and the market economy do not necessarily go hand in hand. Open-source projects often grow very fast because everyone is working towards the same goal of improving the software for the common good—once companies need to make profit to survive however, these goals do not necessarily stay aligned. Nevertheless, open-source does exist in a market-driven world that relies on the principles of direct exchange and supply and demand.
A Conference to Find Viable Business Models to Commercialize Open Source Software
Organizers of the Open Core Summit – which took part this month at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco – announced the COSS (Commercial Open-Source Software) Platform.
The goal of this initiative is to help commercial open-source organizations develop viable business models. “We want to educate, grow, fund and connect leaders of COSS companies,” as explained to IBL News by Joseph Jacks, founder of OSS Capital, a venture-capital firm who put together the Open Core Summit.
Civil resistance is interesting. Civil idiocy less so. This is a minor league equivalency to #GoogleGestapo claiming it has the right to deplatform anyone it does not agree with.
The Great Open Source Divide: ICE, Hippocratic License and the Controversy
White House Issues a “National” Science & Tech Agenda
Hat's off to Steve Aftergood for sharing with us the extraordinarily weak, biased, and ineffective national S&T guidance.
R&D today is corrupt because it is focused on increasing the transfer of wealth from the 99% to the 1%. In that sense, reducing existing R&D programs is the right thing to do.
Continue reading “Robert Steele: President's R&D Guidance is WEAK”
How To Choose The Perfect Open-Source Dashboard
In the current data-driven scenario, data visualisation is something all data analyst have to court, and a dashboard, in this case, is an obvious protagonist. Dashboards allow real-time visualising and easy understanding of the key performance indicators in an organisation. Dashboards extract meaningful insights from data which is further used by organisations for decision-making.
