Will Certifications Related to FOSS Help You Get a Job?
OSFY reached out to its Facebook community, Linux User Groups and hiring managers for answers to the above question…. First, a candid admission: a story on FOSS certification wasn’t really on the cards…
We Strongly Believe In FOSS Philosophy: Unmukti
Open source has always been considered to be complicated, which merits intensive training and learning. But nowadays, we have firms like Unmukti, who share their open source know-how with small and medium start-ups…
“We primarily look for people with good programming skills”
As an online tutoring platform, TutorVista customises open source applications to mimic a classroom experience and maintain its database. G Ramasubramani, CTO, TutorVista, tells OSFY readers what skills the company looks for while…
Microsoft: We Don’t Compete with Linux, But with Linux Vendors
With initiatives like the Imagine Cup and PhoneGap Meetup, Microsoft is surely taking many steps forward to engage with open source communities across the globe, including India. At the sidelines of OSI Days…
M.Sc. in FOSS from Anna University: AU-KBC’s C. N. Krishnan Throws Some Light
The real bottleneck in the growth of FOSS in India is inadequate and commercially sustainable deployment with ‘real world users’… Under Anna University’s new two-year online distance education programme, students can pursue an…
An Interview with Richard Stallman on Freedom, Android, Amazon, Facebook, Steve Jobs…
Any government that tells people to teach proprietary software is essentially delivering the country into the hands of a company. Before you even speak a word before RMS (as Richard M Stallman is…
Some Glimpses of the ‘Dark’ Internet in Protest of SOPA/PIPA
Well, the time has come — January 18, 2012 — and many of the Free/Open Source Software project/advocacy sites, some popular news/discussion sites, as well as our favorite encyclopedia Wikipedia’s English version has…
FOSS is __FUN__: FOSS Meets the MBA
How does FOSS development get along with business graduates who know little about the process? The FOSS methodology recognises that software development is a process that never ends. The developer adopts the end-user…
Aadhaar: A Testimony to Success of FOSS in India!
It is heartening to see how FOSS is powering one of India’s most prestigious and mammoth e-governance initiatives — the Aadhaar project from the Unique Identification Authority of India. For those of you…
Some Myths About Open Source Get Busted by Industry Leaders
If you thought Linux was meant only for the geeks, take a look at what the “real” users have to say about this misconception. Linux was introduced in 1993, and ever since, it…
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