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[News] $6,000,000 for GPL-embracing Company

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Web meeting provider Dimdim raises $6 million

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| Open-source Web conferencing provider Dimdim has raised $6 million in Series 
| B funding, the company is set to announce on Wednesday. 
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9985697-7.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=NewsBlog


Recent:

Web Conferencing Goes Open Source

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| Most companies that use Dimdim's hosted services won't necessarily care about
| the fact that the company's software is available, completely free of charge,
| in an open-source, GPL-licensed Community Edition.
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http://www.bmighty.com/blog/main/archives/2008/06/web_conferencin.html


Recent:

WordPress is Open Source

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| Six Apart has recently decided that the best way to win back customers
| fleeing their platforms is to target WordPress, which is a new strategy they
| call competing. (What have they been doing the past 7 years?) A good example
| is this exchange between a commenter on Valleywag and Byrne Reese, the lead
| developer of Movable Type:    
|
| Sundown: “@anildash: what part of Wordpress is not open source?”
|
| byrnereese: “@Sunnduwn - I think that is a question better asked of
| Automattic. Anil, and certainly not Six Apart, has never been briefed, nor
| has anyone for that matter been presented with an accounting of what is open
| and closed source at Automattic.”  
|
| Okay, here’s some accounting:
|
| WordPress is 100% open source, GPL.
|
| All plugins in the official directory are GPL or compatible, 100% open
| source.
|
| bbPress is 100% GPL.
|
| WordPress MU is 100% open source, GPL, and if you wanted you could take it
| and build your own hosted platform like WordPress.com, like edublogs.org has
| with over 100,000 blogs.  
|
| There is more GPL stuff on the way, as well. :)
|
| Could you build Typepad or Vox with Movable Type? Probably not, especially
| since people with more than a few blogs or posts say it grinds to a halt, as
| Metblogs found before they switched to WordPress.  
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http://ma.tt/2008/03/wordpress-is-open-source/
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