The tool, which is still in development at this point (and which Kahn plans to open source), offers an overview of proportional donations flowing to an individual politician by industry sector over time, as well as letting users drill down to inspect specific donations — to make it easier to identify things like patterns of donations coming from employees of a single company.
Open source offers exciting prospects for innovation, but can methods used to create intangible software be extrapolated to produce tangible medicines?
Sweetch founders say they hope the open-source offer makes city officials reconsider any actions they may want to take against them.
Challengers like Sun Microsystems StarOfficee, OpenOffice.org and the Open Source Applications Foundation offer free or very inexpensive alternatives to Microsoft's Office programs, hoping to follow in the footsteps of Linux, the increasingly popular open-source operating system, which competes with Microsoft's Windows operating system.
The Open Source solutions offer great promise for decreasing implementation and ongoing maintenance of these systems, as well as providing a global community for support and continuous improvement.
The use of so-called open source textbooks, offered by companies like FlatWorld Knowledge, is also on the rise.
Open source software offers an approved alternative to proprietary software.
The open source product offers various tools for navigation within maps, retrieval of metadata and queries of map contents [34].
His planned tablet, which he calls the XO-3, will be developed open source and offered up for duplication to any willing PC maker.
As contrasted with the traditional software marketing model, OSS pursues the freedom to have access to open source and offers several advantages to enterprises.
In fact, the degree of flexibility and reassurance an open source product offers is the very reason why PredictionIO pivoted away from a SaaS model and chose to open up its codebase.
