Cody Taylor

It doesn’t matter if you’re a new convert, an experienced user, or a potential switcher, you’ll find something in the following pages that will make you feel a micron of pride of what open source can achieve. By uncovering KDE’s hidden options you can make a real difference to the way you work.

A picture will always be worth a thousand words. The good news is that in the open source world, there are many excellent, free graphics and animation tools, plus free resources for getting started with them right away.

Steve Ballmer’s deal with the Catalonian government is seen as a leverage against their existing Open Source strategy.It was a pretty personal deal between Steve Ballmer and president of the Generalitat de Catalunya José Montilla.

Open-source pioneers Bill and Lynne Jolitz may be the most famous programmers you’ve never heard of.

The Washington Times has always focused on content. After careful review, we determined that the best way to have the top tools to produce and publish that content is to release the source code of our in-house tools and encourage collaboration.

snydeq writes “InfoWorld’s Bill Snyder posits a deeper relationship between government and open source than was proposed in last week’s open letter to Obama calling for broader open source adoption: economic stimulus. Since software vendors urged the president to go open source last week, security companies ‘have raised scary points about vulnerabilities in open source,’ suggesting they could step in to help secure an open source switch. Rather than opt for this kind of security through obscurity, Snyder argues in favor of earmarking funds for open source development to instead ensure security through transparency. ‘Once the government expands its use and support of open source, venture money — which is drying up in the current recession — would again start flowing to those small companies, allowing them to hire or rehire some of the tens of thousands of unemployed IT workers,’ he argues.”

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If you are an aspiring Graphic designer you should be already familiar with blender by now, but if you are thinking about being a game developer or a graphic designer you should know that Blender is not only the best free and open source choice but also rivals all commercial 3d applications out there.

Drupal developers are abuzz with the realization that the White House’s new Recovery.gov site was built using the free and open-source content management platform Drupal. Pre-Recovery.gov, the perhaps highest-profile use of Drupal had been the Onion website. But that’s not the only reason that Drupal fans are excited.

Set of helpful open-source alternatives for designers that will save their time and increase their efficiency and productivity.