Stadia is Google’s New Gaming Service Powered by Linux & Open-Source Tech
▻https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/03/googles-new-game-service-is-based-on-linux-open-source-tech
Stadia, a brand new game streaming service from Google, has been revealed — and it’s powered by Linux and open source technology. This post, Stadia is Google’s New Gaming Service Powered by Linux & Open-Source Tech, was written by Joey Sneddon and first appeared on OMG! Ubuntu!.
Microsoft has reportedly acquired GitHub - The Verge
▻https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/3/17422752/microsoft-github-acquisition-rumors
Microsoft has reportedly acquired GitHub, and could announce the deal as early as Monday. Bloomberg reports that the software giant has agreed to acquire GitHub, and that the company chose Microsoft partly because of CEO Satya Nadella. Business Insider first reported that Microsoft had been in talks with GitHub recently.
GitHub is a vast code repository that has become popular with developers and companies hosting their projects, documentation, and code. Apple, Amazon, Google, and many other big tech companies use GitHub. Microsoft is the top contributor to the site, and has more than 1,000 employees actively pushing code to repositories on GitHub. Microsoft even hosts its own original Windows File Manager source code on GitHub. The service was last valued at $2 billion back in 2015, but it’s not clear exactly how much Microsoft has paid to acquire GitHub.
MICROSOFT LOVES OPEN SOURCE NOW
Microsoft has been rapidly investing in open source technology since Satya Nadella took over the CEO role. Microsoft has open sourced PowerShell, Visual Studio Code, and the Microsoft Edge JavaScript engine. Microsoft also partnered with Canonical to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10, and acquired Xamarin to assist with mobile app development.
Ne pas se faire pieger intelectuellement :
►https://seenthis.net/messages/693453
@sandburg complètement d’accord. Et incidemment, va falloir que je trouve une autre forge pour les quelques trucs que j’ai sur github...
A priori Framasoft propose quelque chose dans ce sens.
▻https://framagit.org/public/projects
@BigGrizzly
Pour le côté purement interface graphique/web avec des dépôts git effectivement Framagit c’est parfait comme alternative...
Le problème c’est les services et les outils qui sont construit autour de l’API de GitHub et qui en général n’ont pas (encore) d’équivalent avec GitLab le logiciel utilisé par Framagit.
Un exemple : Netlify CMS
►https://www.netlifycms.org
Le support de GitLab est en développement depuis... la nuit des temps et toujours pas opérationnel.
La transition vers des outils libres est une évidence, mais c’est pas (forcément) quelque chose d’aisée
6 reasons open source is good for business | Opensource.com
▻https://opensource.com/article/17/10/6-reasons-choose-open-source-software
Here’s why businesses should choose the open source model.
At a fundamental level, open source solutions are better than proprietary ones. Want to know why? Here are six reasons why businesses and government organizations benefit from using open source technology.
Paymium : Money over IP
▻http://paymium.com
Paytunia
Paytunia is the first ever universal payment scheme using the #Bitcoin network to process payments in Euros.
Based on Bitcoin open source technology, the Paytunia wallet is a clear choice for users looking for an easy-to-use mobile wallet and for merchants looking for a cost-effective, simpler online checkout solution.
(@thibnton : c’est une société française basée à Boulogne : ▻https://twitter.com/paymium)
Gonzague Grandval (Paymium) : "Nous voulons décloisonner le marché du paiement grâce aux Bitcoins" - JDN Web & Tech
▻http://www.journaldunet.com/web-tech/start-up/gonzague-grandval-paymium-gonzague-grandval.shtml
Why cyber currency Bitcoin is trading at an all-time high
▻http://money.cnn.com/2013/03/06/technology/innovation/bitcoin/index.html
The underlying system that generates coins is extremely difficult to attack, but the “digital wallets” bitcoin owners use to store their wealth haven’t been so lucky. A series of high-profile thefts in 2011 crashed the currency’s value, and one exchange operator lost 24,000 bitcoins to a thief in September.
►http://code.google.com/p/libperseus
►http://code.google.com/p/libperseus/logo?cct=1299322141
PERSEUS library is an open source technology whose aim is to secure any kind of communication streams against illegitimate or abusive eavesdropping except for Nation State Security offices, provided that a suitable, huge computing power is used (from tens of hours with a supercomputer). PERSEUS enables to provide at the same time users’ needs for privacy and confidentiality while preserving the ability of security agencies (police, defense, national security...) to eavesdrop communications of really bad actors (terrorists, child pornographs...). The PERSEUS technology can be very useful in different cases:
- To protect against illegal or abusive eavesdropping activity by malware on a large scale (e.g. botnets which are listening on non standard TCP ports rather than hooking keyboards for example; hooking techniques are indeed supposed to be detected by antivirus software).
- To protect against private stream eavesdropping by private intelligence companies (consuming behaviour analysis, economic intelligence, non legal eavesdropping...).
- To protect communications from “non democratic” states towards democratic states (e.g; journalists).
- To protect professionnal of business communications in countries where cryptography use is limited or forbidden.
The interest of the PERSEUS technology lies also in the fact that TRANSEC aspect is also provided (protecting the communication channel). In other words, any data stream protected with PERSEUS looks like a lot of legitimate, unencrypted data streams. Moreover, its statistical profile is constantly changing (statistical mutation).
PERSEUS technology has been developped by Eric Filiol. Current applications and implementations of PERSEUS library are:
– Eddy Deligne has implemented the first application dedicated to the HTTP stream through a Linux/Windows Firefox module (the sever is also available). See the Google code repository as well as the Perseus Apache Google code repository.
- Fabien Jobin has designed the Andromede library embedding the PERSEUS library to protect torrent protocols. Go to the Andromeda Google code repository.
PERSEUS technology is an open source technology under the triple GPL/LGPL/MPL licence.
►http://code.google.com/p/andromeda
►http://code.google.com/p/perseus-firefox