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Submission + - Why The "Star Trek Computer" Will Be Open Source and Apache Licensed

Submitted by psykocrime on Wednesday May 22, 2013 @02:22PM

psykocrime writes: The crazy kids at Fogbeam Labs have a new blog post up, positing that there is a trend towards advanced projects in NLP, Information Retrieval, Big Data and the Semantic Web moving to the Apache Software Foundation. Considering that Apache UIMA is a key component of IBM Watson is it wrong to believe that the organization behind Hadoop, OpenNLP, Jena, Stanbol, Mahout and Lucene will ultimately be the home of a real "Star Trek Computer"?

Submission + - Post "Good Google", Who Will Defend The Open Web?

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psykocrime

on Thursday March 21, 2013 @11:19AM

psykocrime writes: "The crazy kids at Fogbeam Labs have started a discussion about Google and their relationship with the Open Web, and questioning who will step up to defend these principles, even as Google seem to be abdicating their position as such a champion. Some candidates mentioned include Yahoo, IBM, Red Hat, Mozilla, Microsoft and The Wikimedia Foundation, among others. The question is, what organization(s) have BOTH the necessary clout and the required ethical principles, to truly champion the Open Web, in the face of commercial efforts which are clearly inimical to Open Source, Open Standards, Libre Culture and other elements of an Open Web?"

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