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Microsoft is mostly criticized by the Linux community for their closed-source Windows operating system which single-handedly outperforms the popularity of all the Linux distros combined. The company has been an advocate of proprietary software, but in the last couple of years, Redmond has made a lot of contributions to the open source community. Microsoft is now […]
Over the course of past two years, we’ve been telling you how Microsoft is trying hard to earn the appreciation of open source developers by either contributing to open source software or sharing its own code on GitHub. These moves have faced skepticism from us as well. Just yesterday, at its Ignite conference, Microsoft launched SQL […]
Short Bytes: Kerala adopted Free and Open Source Software in 2005 in a phased manner and went on to replace proprietary software. As a result, Kerala annually saves $58 million (Rs 300 crore). Thanks to the Free Software license, people are able to freely copy and distribute the software. At Fossbytes, we strive to tell you the […]
Short Bytes: GitHub recently launched a detailed guide about contributing to open source. Since long, newbies have struggled to find projects to contribute to and what exactly to start contributing to them. Veterans have struggled to make new contributors feel welcome and encouraged for contributions. The guide provides detailed timeline steps of what to look for, […]
Short Bytes: NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is known to be a long-time advocate of free and open source software. Speaking at an event via video conferencing, he said that transparency of free software convinced him to use TOR, Tails, and Debian, that helped him to expose the secrets of American government. At the Free Software […]
In an important policy change, the Government of India announced that it will adopt the open source software and make it mandatory for all the government software services and applications. Narendra Modi led government said that as a part if its Digital India campaign, all the e-governance projects will use the free and open source […]