Examples of such aggregation include Openstreetmap, a project to create open-source maps by collecting GPS data from users as they drive about, and Trapster, a constantly updated database of the locations of police speed traps, compiled from reports sent in by users of the software.Inrix, a provider of traffic data based in Seattle, has based its business model on this approach.
With an expected fall rollout, Hanson has big ambitions to change the field of artificial intelligence by creating an open-source platform for researchers everywhere.
Microsoft said it developed the format to offer a more useful and varied alternative to the nonproprietary OpenDocument Format created by open source developers and used by IBM, Sun Microsystems and others.
What happened is that the software created by open source communities became so powerful that commercial interests embraced those communities, supported them, learned from them and now are using the mechanisms of open source to make their businesses run better.
Created by Mozilla employee Lukas Blakk, the initiative seeks to create an Open Source hacking course targeted at underrepresented populations.
By improving on the tools created by the open source community — and employing the developer behind the DirectX-to-Vulkan project, it has done more for PC gaming on Linux in the last week than it managed to do in 5 years.
– June 30 , 2008– NETGEAR®, Inc. (NASDAQGM: NTGR), a worldwide provider of technologically advanced, branded networking solutions, today announced the launch of the Open Source Wireless-G Router (WGR614L), a full-featured wireless router designed to serve as a reliable, high-performance platform to support a wide variety of applications created by the open source community.
Portraits created from open source DNA samples found on Github.
Policy support for H.323 was created by extending an open source gatekeeper.
The Spectral Game[24] was created by bringing together Open Source spectral data, a spectrum viewing tool and appropriate work flows for delivering these in a gaming fashion.
