Open News Episode 31
A Weekly Open Source News Podcast
| Running time | 6'04 |
| Computer science content | medium |
| Business content | medium |
| English language complexity | high |
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Sub-areas covered
- Open source issues
- FOSS software
Learning objectives
- to acquire knowledge on open source software usage
- to become familiar with licensing and what effect it may have on open source software
Keywords
- Podcast
- a series of digital-media files which are distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds for playback on portable media players and computers
- Gnome
- one of the biggest window managers for Linux
- FOSS
- the acronym for Free and Open Source Software, software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction
- OHA
- Open Handset Alliance™, a group of more than 30 technology and mobile companies who have developed Android, the first complete, open, and free mobile platform
- LiSP
- The Linux Phone Standards Forum, a consortium founded by a group of telephony operators, device manufacturers, silicon and software vendors who have a strategic focus on Linux telephony
Summary
This is an audio podcast with news from the FOSS world.
Clip 1. This clip is about film-makers using open-source software and the main reasons for them doing so.
Clip 2. This is about Google’s purchase of the mobile phone platform company Android. It contains different opinions about this development and discusses the possible consequences and significance for the mobile Linux community.
Clip 3. This is a report on running the Linux system on school computers in Macedonia.
Jest to audio podcast z wiadomościami ze świata wolnego oprogramowania
Fragment 1. W tym fragmencie zawarto informację o używaniu oprogramowania open-source przez twórców filmów, a także przedstawiono główne przyczyny takiej tendencji.
Fragment 2. Ten fragment donosi o zakupieniu platformy telefonii komórkowej przez firmę Google. Przedstawiono w nim różne opinie na ten temat, a także znaczenie i moż- liwe konsekwencje tego faktu dla społeczności twórców wolnego oprogramowania.
Fragment 3. Ten fragment zawiera informację o wprowadzeniu systemu Linux w szkolnych komputerach w całej Macedonii
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