January 13, 2022
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Comments Off on EVerest: The open source software stack for EV charging infrastructure
Even if you’d never buy a Tesla, electric vehicles (EVs) are the future. There’s only one big problem. Unlike a gas-based car, where you can always find a gas station when you need to top off, there’s nothing like enough … Continue reading
May 12, 2020
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Comments Off on Google vs. Oracle: The next chapter
Ten years ago, Oracle, desperate to monetize its failed Sun purchase, sued Google to squeeze profits out of its use of Java APIs in Android. Oracle won its point — that application programming interfaces (APIs) were subject to copyright. More recently, Google got the Supreme … Continue reading
February 7, 2019
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Comments Off on Microsoft joins OpenChain open-source compliance group
OpenChain, I would argue, is the most important open-source project you’ve never heard of before. This Linux Foundationconsortium provides an industry standard for open-source supply chain license compliance. And now, Microsoft has joined the the OpenChain Project. OpenChain’s important because the open-source … Continue reading
February 6, 2014
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Standards-making is like sausage making. You need it, but it’s ugly. Yet the standards process is the necessary evil behind every technology we rely on. On August 6, 1890, William Kemmler became a victim of an early technology standards war. … Continue reading
August 6, 2013
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HTML5 has reopened the debate about whether Web applications can compete with native applications. Now, with the latest World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)’s Web Application Working Group Web Storage Recommendation HTML5 developers have another powerful tool for creating Web-based programs. … Continue reading
June 6, 2013
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When Google announced on March 13th that it would no longer be supporting the CalDAV application programming interface (API), developers were not happy. In early June, Google reconsidered its position and re-opened CalDAV and, to top it off, Google said … Continue reading