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HP does a lot more than talk about open source—we're a solutions provider, active user, and a longstanding supporter of the community that drives it. Today, more than 2,500 developers across the company are focused on Linux and open source projects. Over 6,500 service professionals worldwide are involved in the implementation and support of Linux and open source projects. And HP has over 200 shipping products with embedded open source software.
Our track record is a clear indication that we are seriously committed to the growth, maturity, and success of open source technology for our customers, and that fueling the community with this is mind is an integral part of that effort.
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HP and several major industry partners have announced major community initiatives to promote collaboration on open source software governance, including two supporting web resources: FOSSBazaar and FOSSology, new HP governance services, and the contribution of HP's FOSSology toolset for analysis of free and open source software. |
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HP is a founding platinum member of the new merger between OSDL and FSG that is determined to help promote, protect, and standardize Linux. |
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HP has a powerful Debian-based client, HP ProLiant and BladeSystem servers enabled for Debian use, and one-stop support for Debian on selected HP servers. |
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Google is utilizing HP's Tesseract to create a vast online library. |
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HP's widespread contributions to open source and Linux include organizational leadership, intellectual property contributions, project development, and individual community activism.
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HP is a frequent sponsor of key community events such as aKademy, DebConf, FOSS.IN, International Free Software Forum, Libre Graphics Meeting, Linux Kernel Developers Summit, LinuxFest Northwest, LinuxWorld, Ohio LinuxFest, OSCON, Ottawa Linux Symposium, Linux Conference Australia, Southern California Linux Expo, and The GNOME Conference.
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Intellectual property contributions |
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HP has bestowed a significant amount of valuable intellectual property to the open source community for technology advances. Some recent contributions are:
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In addition to supporting numerous open source projects including Debian, HP has initiated over 3000 open source projects of its own, many which have been released to the community. |
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An HP OCR engine well-perceived by the press as an integral part of Google's effort to establish a massive news archive. |
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Offering a standardized set of tools and processes to quickly and efficiently roll out new Linux servers. Linux COE provides high quality, efficient system management at low cost. |
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More than 200 open source tools, utilities, libraries, and packages have been ported to the HP Integrity NonStop server platform and are available at no cost to customers. |
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HP is the only major printer manufacturer with fully open source printer drivers. We've contributed over 1,200, now included in our partners' Linux distributions for true plug n' play support, earning us first prize in a Linuxprinting.org survey because of quality, speed, and open source commitment. |
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HP continues to play an important role in the definition and implementation of carrier grade Linux for the telecom sector. |
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