Net Applications has found that Windows 8.x actually lost user share in June 2014, while Windows 7 has really been the operating system to gain from XP’s end of support.
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OpenSSL Speeds Up Development to Avoid Being ‘Slow-Moving and Insular”
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The makers of OpenSSL unveiled a new development roadmap this week, saying the open source project needs to change because it “is increasingly perceived as slow-moving and insular.”
The inner workings of the poorly funded OpenSSL project came under scrutiny after the discovery of Heartbleed, a security flaw in the cryptography library that put much of the Web’s encrypted communications at risk. Tech giants eventually agreed to give the project money, enough to hire two full-time developers and perform a third-party security audit.
The new OpenSSL Project Roadmap, unveiled Monday and updated yesterday, sets out a list of goals for its new staff.
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Facebook’s Open Source Contributions Remain Substantial
Facebook, like Google, is showing itself to be a strong contributor to the open source community. Only a few weeks ago, the company open sourced Haxl, a library that eases access to remote data. Haxl can automatically batch multiple requests to the same data source, request data from multiple data sources concurrently, and cache previous requests.
Now, the company has distributed some overall numbers about its open source contributions, and it’s clear that Facebook is making a substantial effort to share tools that it creates.
According to an update from the company, open source activities of note include:
Facebook’s open source projects have seen 13,000 total commits, an increase of 45 percent from the second half of 2013.
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