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August 30, 2012
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How Twitter tweets your tweets with open source

San Diego, CA: Some people may have been surprised when Twitter recently joined The Linux Foundation. You couldn’t tweet about your dinner, your latest game, or the newest political rumor without open-source software. Chris Aniszczyk, open-source manager at Twitter, explained … Continue reading

August 29, 2012
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Apple, Microsoft, VMware: Everyone’s building open-source software

San Diego, CA: At LinuxCon, the Linux Foundation‘s annual North American technical conference, Jim Zemlin’s, the Foundation’s executive director said, “If you are going to master software development, you must master open source.” Why is it important for businesses to master … Continue reading

August 13, 2012
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Red Hat finally commits to OpenStack for the cloud

Red Hat has long supported OpenStack cloud software… in theory. In practice though the Linux giant wouldn’t commit to OpenStack until now. On August 13, Red Hat, announced the immediate availability of the preview release of Red Hat’s OpenStack distribution.  … Continue reading