Uber Australia’s general manager David Rohrsheim claims that the company should not be subject to the same regulatory financial burden as the taxi industry, while calling for new regulation in …read more Source:: Legal
Month: April 2015
Mesos adds Kubernetes, containers to data center management system
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Mesosphere, creator of DCOS — a management system for data centers that leverages the Apache Mesos cluster management project — is following in the footsteps of many other …read more Source:: OpenSource
Western Australia takes legal action against Uber
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•Just months after targeting Uber drivers, the Western Australia government is taking legal action against the ride-sharing app developer directly, for not having the correct licence to operate in the …read more Source:: Legal
Open source patent protection extended to popular software
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•By Simon Phipps OIN (the Open Invention Network) has announced important changes to its definition of what constitutes “the Linux system.” Licensing community participants were advised yesterday that, as of June 25, the Linux …read more Source:: OpenSource
Global agreement on internet security premature: Bishop
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•An international agreement on internet security would be premature despite the need for a trans-border agreement to help minimise the potential damage done by state-sponsored online activity, according to Australian …read more Source:: Legal
Rise of hybrid cloud puts accountability in spotlight
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•Amid growing interest in hybrid clouds, enterprises need to pay attention to service accountability, which can be tricky to define in an environment intertwined with assets belonging to the customer …read more Source:: Legal
What if Microsoft really did open-source Windows?
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•By Matt Asay A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich wouldn’t rule out the notion that Windows might go open source. In fact, he said it was “definitely possible.” While the …read more Source:: OpenSource
Review: Storm’s real-time processing comes at a price
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•By Steven Nunez Storm, a top-level Apache project, is a Java framework designed to help programmers write real-time applications that run on Hadoop clusters. Designed at Twitter, Storm excels at processing high-volume message …read more Source:: OpenSource
Europe slugs Google with antitrust charges and opens Android probe
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•Google has been accused of illegally using its dominance in search in the European market to favour its own services and harm rivals. …read more Source:: Legal
Who’s behind Linux now, and should you be afraid?
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•By Paul Rubens If you think that Linux is still the “rebel code”– the anti-establishment, software-just-wants-to-be-free operating system developed by independent programmers working on their own time — then it’s time to think …read more Source:: OpenSource