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Open Source vs. Proprietary: Desktop Productivity

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ve been using this tool since it actually was StarOffice, more than 10 years ago, when it was first open sourced by Sun in 2000. (funnily enough, for both packages, the executable is still called ‘soffice’ – for ‘Star Office.’). The database has not come anywhere near the functionality of Access.

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Google and the US government partner to make open source chips

TechSpot

According to the DoC, the Google-NIST partnership answers one of the most pressing issues in the semiconductor industry: big corporations have ready access to new chips and designs, while. A new agreement between the US Department of Commerce and Google could spark a surge of new chip designs and innovations.

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Skiff, an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Docs, raises $3.7M seed

TechCrunch

Imagine if Google Docs was end-to-end encrypted so that not even Google could access your documents. Skiff is a document editor with a similar look and feel to Google Docs, allowing you to write, edit and collaborate in real-time with colleagues with privacy baked in. That’s Skiff , in a nutshell.

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This open source tool used by Google, Meta and MIT is helping rethink knowledge management

TechCrunch

That’s because the open source tool is built on a graph database to allow the system to build semantic connections between documents, whether notes, research, information or PDF markups. The company only launched the tool in open source in October, but reports that large organizations like Google, Meta and MIT have been using Logseq.

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Docs startup Almanac raises $34 million from Tiger as remote work shift hardens

TechCrunch

” Almanac, which builds a doc editor that takes feature cues like version control from developer platforms like Github, has been seizing on the shift to remote work, onboarding new customers through its open source office document library Core while pushing features that allow for easier onboarding like an online company handbook builder. .”

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Almanac is building a faster doc editor for the remote work era

TechCrunch

Few things have captured Silicon Valley-based investors’ attention in recent years quite like the quest to back the successor[s] to Google Docs. “The core tools we used for productivity, Microsoft Word and Google Docs, were for when we did a completely different type of work.”

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As promised, Bootstrap creators release first update since leaving Twitter

The Next Web

changelog: Added four new example templates to the docs, including a narrow marketing page, sign in form, sticky footer, and a fancy carousel (created for an upcoming.net magazine article). Updated JavaScript plugins and docs to jQuery 1.8.1. Here’s the official Bootstrap 2.2.0 Added Contributing.md Image credit: Nicole_N.

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