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Microsoft: we were wrong about open source

The Verge

Microsoft has admitted it was wrong about open source, after the company battled it and Linux for years at the height of its desktop domination. Microsoft president Brad Smith now believes the company was wrong about open source. Microsoft president Brad Smith now believes the company was wrong about open source.

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Google expands its Flutter development kit to Windows apps

Venture Beast

Google has announced that Flutter, its open source UI development kit for building cross-platform apps from the same codebase, is now available for Windows. Read More.

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Red Hat seeks to be the platform for enterprise AI

Network World

IBM’s newly open-sourced Granite models? Other companies have also released open source gen AI, including Databricks and Snowflake, as well as Meta and Microsoft – even X and Apple are in the game. And you can contribute back to the open source community or just keep it for yourself, if you have proprietary trade secrets.”

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Amazon, Apple, and Google’s open-source smart home standard is on track for a 2021 launch

The Verge

Project Connected Home over IP — the ambitious attempt to bring together Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance with a unified, open-source smart home platform — has just posted its latest update on the project. sensors, detectors, security systems), window coverings/shades, TVs, access points, bridges and others.”

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what every open source project needs

SPF13

In the last few years open source has transformed the software industry. From Android to Wikipedia, open source is everywhere, but how does one succeed in it? What Every Successful Open Source Project Needs. Open Source Companies • Redhat $13B • Cloudera $3B • MongoDB $1.6B • Docker $.5B

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Google Magenta’s Lo-Fi Player lets you create your own virtual music room

The Verge

Google Magenta. A new Google Magenta project (created by an intern!) Magenta is designed to use Google’s machine learning systems for the creation of art and music, and the Lo-Fi Player is a fun example of what it can do.

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Google and Microsoft worked together to improve spellcheck in Chrome and Edge

The Verge

Google and Microsoft have worked together to improve the spellcheck experience in Chrome and Edge. The latest versions of Chrome and Edge are now powered by the built-in Windows Spellcheck feature rather than the previous Hunspell open source implementation. The Windows Spellcheck improvements in Edge.

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