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A Good Company Looks Like A Good Open Source Project
OStatic (blog)
It should come as little surprise that the engineer-friendly company looks a lot like successful open source projects, except with a paycheck and benefits. ...

SYS-CON Media (press release)
Open source search startup Lucid Imagination raises $10M
San Jose Business Journal
Lucid Imagination CEO Eric Gries has raised another $10 million for the San Mateo-based open source search startup. Open source search Lucid Imagination ...
Open Source Search Gains MomentumCTO Edge (blog)
Lucid Imagination Takes $10 MillionNew York Times (blog)
Lucid Imagination lands $10M more for enterprise search solutionsVentureBeat
San Jose Mercury News -SYS-CON Media (press release)
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Sun Microsystems Chief Open Source Officer Leaves Oracle
CMSWire
What does that mean for his pet projects, and Oracle's plans for Sun's open source properties? In addition to these accomplishments, he also appears proud ...
Sun's Open Source Chief QuitsInformationWeek
Open source boss quits Sun OracleRegister
Simon Phipps elected as OSI directorThe H
NetworkWorld.com -IT PRO -InternetNews.com (blog)
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BBC News
Tories pat small biz heads in open source IT procurement pledge
Register
Echoing the current Labour government's "commitment" to open source and open standards, the Tories sang from the same hymn book by declaring they would ...
Tories to pledge 'fastest broadband' in EuropeBBC News
Conservatives promise 100Mbps in tech manifestoIT PRO
Opening up government data 'will create £6bn'ePolitix
Techworld.com (blog)
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Lucid Imagination Takes $10 Million
New York Times (blog)
Lucid Imagination, a commercial vendor of open source search technologies Lucene and Solr, has landed $10 million in a second round of fuding, ...
Lucid Imagination lands $10M more for enterprise search solutionsVentureBeat
Search and storage startups benefit from explosive gorwth of dataSan Jose Mercury News
Lucid Imagination Secures $10 Million in Series B FundingEarthtimes (press release)
TechCrunch (blog)
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Lucid Imagination lands $10M more for enterprise search solutions
VentureBeat
Lucid Imagination, a company that provides support, training and consulting for open source search technologies Lucene and Solr, today announced it has ...
Search and storage startups benefit from explosive gorwth of dataSan Jose Mercury News
Lucid Imagination Secures $10 Million in Series B FundingEarthtimes (press release)
Lucid Imagination Raises $10 Million For Apache Search TechnologyTechCrunch (blog)

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open source router targets developers
ITWeb
Duxbury Networking has released a new high performance open source router targeted at Linux/Unix and other open source platform application developers. ...

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Windows 7/Vista/XP / Open Source / 68 downloads
BetaNews
BleachBit quickly frees disk space, removes hidden junk, and easily guards your privacy. Erase cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, remove unused ...
Download Google Chrome 4.1.249.1030 BetaSoftpedia
Language translation service 'to open up the internet'ashdowngroup.com

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Selecting an Open Source Operating System
Computerworld
Network World - There's a large selection of free and open source (FOSS) operating systems available these days, and choosing the right ...

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The H
Mozilla open source license set for facelift
Register
Mozilla has already been in touch with the Free Software Foundation and the Open Source Initiative in an effort to ensure that any updates match up with ...
Mozilla to overhaul its open-source licenseCNET
Mozilla redrafts open-source licencePC Pro

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Using Open Source for Cloud Hosting Efficiency
EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet
Network operating systems that are open, like Extreme XOS enable large scale hosting providers to look deeper into networking gear and start to tune it ...

Magento: PayPal Symbiotic Relationship Boosts e-Commerce
TMCnet
Magento, the global open source e-commerce platform, and PayPal (News - Alert) announced that they are expanding their relationship to offer ...
PayPal Expands Relationship with Magento on E-CommerceInternet Ad Sales (press release) (blog)

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The H
Mozilla to overhaul its open-source license
CNET
Ten years on, Mozilla has concluded that its open-source underpinnings are due for a refresh. The Firefox browser and Thunderbird ...
Mozilla open source license set for faceliftRegister
Mozilla redrafts open-source licencePC Pro
Mozilla to revise its open-source licenceV3.co.uk

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ComputerworldUK
What Apple's and Microsoft's patent threats mean for start-ups
CNET
At some point, the interests of open source-friendly IBM or Oracle will conflict with a start-up or project, just as has happened with Microsoft, ...
Former Sun CEO Says Apple's Jobs Threatened To Sue Co In 2003Wall Street Journal
Gates Asked for IP Royalties for OpenOffice from Sun MicrosystemsSoftpedia
Daily Dose - Schwartz: Apple and Microsoft Tried to Sue Me Too!DZone News
OStatic (blog) -ZDNet UK (blog) -PC World
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The rise of open source: Thoughts on TEDxNYED
Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard
The first article mentioning the phrase “open source journalism” was apparently published in Salon magazine in 1999, describing an experiment that had been ...

EnterpriseDB Tapped For Online Gaming
InformationWeek
Sony has selected the the open source PostgreSQL system to support Free Realm, a data-intense multiplayer online game. By Charles Babcock Sony Online ...

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iPhone app contract shows Apple is the enemy of open source
Computerworld (blog)
Many open source fans consider Apple a friend. But revelations about Apple's previously secret agreement with iPhone developers show that when it comes to ...
EFF posts Apple's Iphone SDK licence termsInquirer
Apple's Secret App Contract: Developers Pay Apple Even When Users Don'tBNET
Veil Lifts on Apple's Secret Plan to Control UniverseWired News
Fiercemobilecontent -Sci-Tech Today -Register
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Ars Technica
CodePlex refresh, FOSS projects more compatible with Windows
Ars Technica
Former Microsoft open source evangelist Sam Ramji, currently VP of strategy at Sonoa, will be remaining on the board, along with Microsoft . ...
CodePlex Foundation announces board of directorsThe H
CodePlex gets Revamped, Earns More CredibilityTechie Buzz

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ZDNet (blog)
Open source first, ask questions later
ZDNet (blog)
For Google, open source simplifies vendor relationships. You can join the Google software ecosystem without signing a contract. ...

Mozilla's FrankenFirefox
ZDNet (blog)
There's no doubt in my mind that open source makes for better applications. If your code is rubbish (or just not as good as it could be), you can get people ...
Mozilla borrows from WebKit to build fast new JS engineArs Technica

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