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Exclusive: Zipwhip to open source ‘Textspresso’ machine and release cloud texting for Ubuntu

By Libby Clark - April 12, 2012 - 10:28am

It’s a pretty nice dream. On your morning commute, you send a text message to the office espresso machine with your order for a double Americano and the warm mug is waiting when you get in.

For Seattle-based cloud texting company Zipwhip, the dream is reality. Its engineers custom-built an espresso machine that takes orders via SMS using their own cloud messaging application. (Watch the video, it’s pretty sweet.)

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Five ways to rev up Linux for the car industry

By Rudolf Streif - April 11, 2012 - 8:25am

Linux is already being adopted by an increasing number of car makers such as GM and Jaguar predominantly for in-vehicle infotainment systems.

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That's a Wrap: 2012 Linux Foundation Collab Summit Pictures

By Jennifer Cloer - April 6, 2012 - 2:09pm

{lfnews}The day after one of The Linux Foundation events is always a bit like the day after a really great party: you're exhausted but in a good way.

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Five favorite Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit sessions

By Libby Clark - April 6, 2012 - 10:17am

As the annual Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit was wrapping up yesterday in San Francisco, we asked a few attendees to weigh in on their favorite sessions.

The invitation-only event brought together 430 Linux kernel developers, Linux Foundation members and other Linux community insiders for keynote talks, work sessions, training, project updates, industry trends and networking.

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Announcing New Open Compliance Template

By Amanda McPherson - April 4, 2012 - 6:04am

Almost two years ago, The Linux Foundation launched the Open Compliance Program to help companies manage their end-to-end open source license compliance processes.  We have continually added papers, training, tutorials, and dedicated Legal/Compliance session tracks at conferences like Collaboration Summit to help make compliance processes easier to understand, and more cost-effective to implement.

Today, we are releasing a new template that will help companies manage the flow of data through the compliance process. 

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Slideshow: Live from Collaboration Summit

By Jennifer Cloer - April 3, 2012 - 2:07pm

{lfnews}The morning keynote presenters were super insightful here at The Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit. Useful ideas were shared that will be topics of further collaboration over the next couple of days. OpenMAMA, Open Compute, Tizen and Linux kernel development were among the topics discussed today. Here's a short slideshow with some great pictures of our speakers.

 

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Facebook’s Open Compute Project Seeks New Ideas for Efficient Datacenters

By Libby Clark - April 3, 2012 - 11:40am

When a Facebook user ‘likes’ something, adds a friend or uploads a photo gallery, he doesn’t necessarily think of what goes on at the back end. That ever-mounting pile of information collected each second from millions of users presents a significant challenge to efficient data storage and management - not to mention a potentially daunting financial and environmental cost.

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How is Linux Built? Our new report and video.

By Amanda McPherson - April 3, 2012 - 8:28am

When you work for the Linux Foundation you get a lot of questions on just how Linux is built. Given the massive scale of the development and ubiquity of Linux today, some of us in the community might think everyone understands how the largest collaborative project in computing works. How you submit a patch. How maintainers work with Linux creator Linus Torvalds. But because of Linux's unprecedented growth in mobile, embedded and cloud computing, among other areas, new companies and developers are looking to participate. More than ever before, actually.

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What Red Hat Has Done is Worth So Much More Than a Billion

By Jim Zemlin - March 28, 2012 - 11:28am

Red Hat is widely expected to crack a billion dollars in revenue in today’s earning call. This achievement will finally put to bed the argument that "nobody can make money with open source." I want to congratulate Red Hat for this incredible achievement. However, I would also like to use this occasion to show that there is significantly more at play here. It isn't just the billion dollars Red Hat is making with open source; there are many more reasons why Linux and open source are fundamental building blocks of the future:

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Colllaboration Works, Even on Open Source License Compliance

By Jennifer Cloer - March 27, 2012 - 10:42am

Phil Odence is Vice President at Black Duck Software and helps lead the SPDX workgroup at The Linux Foundation. He will be moderating a keynote panel next week at The Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit titled "Getting the Kinks Out of the Software Supply Chain."

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