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  Democratic Party launches open source voter registration web app

  By Andrew Webster on September 2, 2012 06:42 pm + 172 comments

  The Democratic National Committee is doing its part to get people voting with a new open source web Continue reading…

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  Open webOS reaches beta milestone: 'we delivered on our promise'

  By Chris Ziegler on August 31, 2012 07:37 pm + 61 comments

  The team responsible for open sourcing webOS — composed primarily of HP employees — has hit the Continue reading…

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  Diaspora team hands keys over to the community

  By Jeff Blagdon on August 27, 2012 09:29 pm + 23 comments

  After two years, $200,000 in Kickstarter cash, and a shifting focus to side projects, the Diaspora Continue reading…

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  White House makes 'We the People' online petition tool open source

  By Andrew Webster on August 24, 2012 01:16 pm + 8 comments

  The White House has announced that its "We the People" online petition system is going open source. Continue reading…

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  Sony embraces Google's AOSP Xperia S experiment, 'supports external innovation'

  By Evan Rodgers on August 21, 2012 03:44 pm + 84 comments

  Just three days ago, Google's Jean-Baptiste Queru announced an experiment that would bring an Continue reading…

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  Raspberry Pi runs ported version of Mozilla's web-based Firefox OS

  By Louis Goddard on August 16, 2012 12:17 pm + 24 comments

  While smartphones running Mozilla's web-based Firefox OS aren't expected to ship until 2013, that Continue reading…

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  TextMate 2.0 goes open source

  By Nate Ralph on August 10, 2012 01:24 am + 43 comments

  The alpha version of the popular Mac text editor, TextMate 2.0, has been open sourced. As noted by A Continue reading…

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  Digia acquires Qt from Nokia, plans to enable it on Android, iOS, and Windows 8

  By Tom Warren on August 9, 2012 03:00 am + 34 comments

  Digia announced today that it has agreed to acquire the Qt business and software technologies from Continue reading…

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  Source Sans Pro: Adobe's first open source font family

  By Vlad Savov on August 3, 2012 04:45 am + 16 comments

  Over on the Adobe Type Team Blog, Paul Hunt has penned an introduction to Source Sans Pro, a new Continue reading…

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  Open webOS will not support existing hardware, leaving Pre, Pixi, and Veer behind

  By Dante D'Orazio on July 31, 2012 04:32 pm + 48 comments

  It's been an emotional journey for fans of webOS, but there was a glimmer of hope for those who Continue reading…