For the Gamer, and Alcoholic in Mind
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| There’s an website by a friend of mine, which is absolutly the greatest when
| it comes to Open Source games.
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http://www.wnymedia.net/news/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=315
Hot open source coders get famous
http://www.smartcompany.com.au/Free-Articles/Trends/20080116-Hot-open-source-coders-get-famous.html
Openads Gets $15.5 Million Funding For Open-Source Ad Platform
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| So how can Openads command such a hefty investment for a product it’s giving
| away? It’s not the first to try to make money from open-source - Red Hat
| (Linux), Automattic (Wordpress) and Acquia have all set about offering
| premium options on top of essentially free software. Today, Openads launches
| a hosted version that removes the need for users to run the software on their
| own servers - there’s not yet any mention of that being a commercial
| offering, but that appears the most likely monetization avenue.
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http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-openads-gets-155-million-funding-for-open-source-ad-platform/
Call for Participation Open for OSCON 2008
http://www.gisuser.com/content/view/13692/
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A Big Drop in the Bucket for Drupal
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| Apparently, the days when a computer science graduate student can invent some
| cool Web software and raise a few million dollars to build a company around
| it are not over. Brand new (less than a month old) North Andover, MA, startup
| Acquia announced yesterday that it’s raised $7 million to market software and
| services in support of the popular Web publishing system Drupal, invented by
| Dries Buytaert, a PhD candidate at the University of Ghent in Belgium.
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| Like the Linux operating system, the Apache web server, and the MySQL
| database system, Drupal is a free, open-source program with a large community
| of volunteer developers and users. And Acquia’s CEO, Jay Batson, says it will
| remain so. Rather than creating and selling a proprietary version of Drupal—
| or “forking” the system, in geek speak—Acquia will work on specialized
| distributions of the software and help organizations deploy it on a larger
| scale. “We will be to Drupal what Red Hat is to Linux,” Batson says.
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http://www.xconomy.com/2007/12/20/a-big-drop-in-the-bucket-for-drupal/
Drupal developer bags $7 million
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| Announcing US$7 million in first round founding from North Bridge Venture
| Partners, Sigma Partners, and O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, Buytaert and Jay
| Batson, former CEO and founder of Pingtel, hope to steer their Drupal spun
| startup Acquia deeper into the enterprise.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1547664640&rid=-50
Open-source tools open democracy's doors
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| According to a Vancouver Web guru, "You can't build a free and open society
| using proprietary software."
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| [...]
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| Nelson said Drupal started when a Belgian named Dries Buytaert was looking at
| developing an on-line bulletin-board-style system for the co-op he was living
| in, one that would enable people to exchange messages. Buytaert, then a
| university student, still maintains a Web site at buytaert.net/ and,
| according to Nelson, released the Drupal codebase under a GNU licence,
| meaning it conforms to open source.
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http://www.straight.com/article-117320/open-source-tools-open-democracys-doors
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