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[News] FOSS Becomes Mainstream Again (Firefox, Facebook)

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Open-Source Reshaping the Software Industry

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| Volunteers drive Mozilla’s success; Microsoft concerned
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| [...]
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| Mozilla, which holds a 28 percent market share, recently released the newest 
| version of its open source browser, dubbed Firefox 3. Firefox was downloaded 
| more than 8 million times on its first day of release.  
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http://en.epochtimes.com/news/8-6-28/72619.html

Developing an open-source platform

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| Jonathan Heiliger, vice president of technical operations at Facebook 
| discusses the company’s open source strategy and its plan to improve the 
| application environment for its more than 100,000 developers.  
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http://video.zdnet.com/CIOSessions/?p=299


Recent:

Firefox 3 downloads clear 8 million mark

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| Take this statistic with a grain of salt, but Mozilla said more than 8
| million copies of Firefox 3 were downloaded in its first 24 hours online.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9972002-7.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=NewsBlog


How Facebook Works

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| The top tier of the Facebook network is made up of the Web servers that
| create the Web pages that users see, most with eight cores running 64-bit
| Linux and Apache. Many of the social network's pages and features are created
| using PHP, a computer scripting language specialized for simple, automated
| functions.
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http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/20921/?a=f
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