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Acquia commercializing Drupal open-source publishing platform
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| While blogging platforms like WordPress and Movable Type have considerable
| name recognition among Web users, few outside the development community know
| about this flexible and open-source content management system Drupal, which
| powers sites like Sony BMG's Myplay, PopSci.com, and the Web 2.0 blog Center
| Networks.
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http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9973383-2.html
More OSS:
Managed Services, the Open Source Way
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| Untangle’s Morris says he believes his company is an early participant in
| what is sure to become a trend among managed services and vendors – to build
| more of their technology and services on open source technology.
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http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/News/Managed-Services-the-Open-Source-Way/
Related:
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:
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| Sundown: “@anildash: what part of Wordpress is not open source?”
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| 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:
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| WordPress is 100% open source, GPL.
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| All plugins in the official directory are GPL or compatible, 100% open
| source.
|
| bbPress is 100% GPL.
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| 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.
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| 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/
How The GPL Can Save Your Ass
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| If you are the multi-billion dollar IT industry you stick you head in the
| sand and just keep making cars. It is after all, not your problem. That seems
| to be the attitude of almost every company with a vested interest in the
| computing market. There was a recent announcement indicating Intel and
| Microsoft have put up $10 million to fund research in parallel software. Hah!
| I'm going to laugh harder this time HAH, HAH! Ever here the phase pissing in
| the ocean, well this is more like throwing a match into the sun. We need
| more -- much more.
|
| [...]
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| Using the GPL will immediately remove issues that would normally choke such
| an important undertaking. First, the any IP barriers get pushed aside and
| everyone can cooperate openly
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http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5379
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