Development by Davis: “History of open source in government” plus 3 more

History of open source in government
Roche: From oversight to insight
Do you use Creative Commons licenses?
AMD and PTC® Team Up to Provide Advanced Graphics Performance in Creo® Parametric 2.0

Posted: 02 May 2012 06:00 AM PDT

It is difficult to imagine the Federal government moving in one well-coordinated direction on any matter, and so it has been with the adoption of open source software. Some agencies were early adopters, especially the academic and research communities. As it did in universities, open source adoption in the US government originated in research settings, where sharing and collaboration were already part of the culture of pedagogy. In this way, the government had been using and creating open source software even before it was called "open source." Other agencies and departments have been more conservative, for a variety of reasons, and are only just now bringing open source software into their operations. With this in mind, the history of open source in the US Government is best understood as a series of individual stories that have collectively lead to the pervasive adoption of open source we see today.

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Roche: From oversight to insight

Posted: 02 May 2012 04:00 AM PDT

Can a company bust bureaucracy by liberating people to manage themselves? A team of managers from Roche Pharmaceuticals set out to prove this point through a management experiment—and reaped big dividends in the process.

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Do you use Creative Commons licenses?

Posted: 02 May 2012 02:00 AM PDT

Do you use any Creative Commons licenses on materials you, your company, or your institution publishes?

Yes

Creative Commons provides a set of copyright licenses and tools "that give everyone from individual creators to large companies and institutions a simple, standardized way to keep their copyright while allowing certain uses of their work."

The idea is to make sharing on the Internet more straightforward and understandable, so people do it more.

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AMD and PTC® Team Up to Provide Advanced Graphics Performance in Creo® Parametric 2.0

Posted: 12 Apr 2012 12:00 AM PDT

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced its collaboration with PTC®, a leading provider of product development software solutions and services, to enable 900%¹ faster performance in 3D transparency in PTC® Creo® Parametric 2.0 and shaded 3D frame rates and int...