Slideshow: Five Years of Linux Collaboration

March 3, 2012 Posted by
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{lfnews}One of our most special events of the year is just a month away, the Annual Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit. This Summit is unique because it’s the first event we ever hosted (2007 on the Google campus) and aims to bring together Linux Fo…

Weekend Project: Take a Tour of Open Source Eye-Tracking Software

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Right this very second, you are looking at a Web browser. At least, those are the odds. But while that's mildly interesting to me, detailed data on where users look (and for how long) is mission-critical. Web designers want to know if visitors a…

Why the Next Steve Jobs Needs a Raspberry Pi, Not Patents

March 2, 2012 Posted by
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Nicholas Negroponte is always ahead of his time. When he envisioned One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), the average price for a PC was still hundreds of dollars. The industry rallied around his vision for a low-cost PC that anyone could use but couldn’…