Borasky Research is focused on open source research and how you can take advantage of open source software to reduce your costs. But it’s not all about reducing costs. It’s also about fun! Hence the mission “Open Source Research For Fun And Profit.”
About the slogan: Docendo Discimus. I first encountered this slogan when I was in junior high school on, of all places, a belt buckle. Translated from the Latin, it means “By teaching, we learn.” That pretty much describes my life since junior high school, and for that matter, the life of any researcher.
I’ve been having fun with open source software for over ten years now. It started with GNU awk (gawk), but rapidly progressed to
- Perl (http://www.cpan.org/),
- Linux (http://www.opensuse.org/en/),
- R (http://www.r-project.org),
- Ruby (http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/),
- GCC (http://gcc.gnu.org/),
- Csound (http://csounds.com/),
- LyX (http://www.lyx.org),
- PostgreSQL (http://www.postgresql.org)
- and now Xen (http://www.xen.org/).
These are the principal open source technologies I use. Some others can be found here.
