Open source on campus: The Stanford Open Source Lab
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| Over the last few months, open source has gained momentum at Stanford
| University in the form of the Stanford Open Source Lab. Inspired by groups
| like the Free Software Foundation, Oregon State University’s Open Source Lab,
| Drupal, Openflows Community Technology Lab, and MIT’s Open Course Ware, a few
| people at Stanford decided to band together and dedicate their time and
| energies to the development of free/open/libre learning and knowledge
| resources.
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http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2008/02/12/open-source-on-campus-the-stanford-open-source-lab/
Continues signs of growth amid recession?
SugarCRM: Doubling Revenues Through Software as a Service?
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| Call it the ultimate double play: Open source coupled with software as a
| service (SaaS). Using that formula, SugarCRM is striving to double its size
| this year, asserts CEO John Roberts.
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http://www.mspmentor.net/2008/02/11/sugarcrm-doubling-revenues-through-software-as-a-service/
Related:
SugarCRM CEO John Roberts: On-Demand Dynamics Are Changing
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| "We wrote SugarCRM from scratch and then released it on open source -- that
| means we are able to indemnify our customers, which is an important issue in
| open source. Right now, we are using the GPL version 3, which is one of the
| best licenses out there," said SugarCRM CEO John Roberts.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/60949.html
Mark Webbink On: GPLv3
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| This week Mark Webbink, former Red Hat General Counsel discusses the GPLv3
| and talks about the limits of sharing, the mellowing out of Linus Torvalds,
| and issues with the LGPLv3.
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http://truthhappens.redhatmagazine.com/2007/10/26/mark-webbink-on-gplv3/#comments
Sun tiptoes into GPLv3
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| Sun Microsystems will release its xVM Ops Center virtualisation management
| application under the General Public Licence version 3 (GPLv3), the company
| revealed at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco.
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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2203486/sun-tiptoes-gplv3
Why does Microsoft seem scared of GPLv3?
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| Microsoft is extremely keen to avoid "legal debate" over whether its recent
| partnerships with Linux firms such as Novell, Xandros, and Linspire, mean
| Redmond must assume any of the new licenses' legal obligations.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Why-does-Microsoft-seem-scared-of-GPLv3-/0,130061733,339279673,00.htm
FSF Says GPLv3 Means Microsoft Patent Protection for All
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| Microsoft's covenant not to sue users of Novell's SUSE Linux
| Enterprise will be extended to all General Public License v3
| users as soon as Novell includes GPLv3 code within its Linux
| distribution, according to the Free Software Foundation.
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http://www.computerwire.com/industries/research/?pid=E86B6EA6-EC51-43DF-A305-9939E5829EFC
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