Better also from a development viewpoint (not just money):
SourceForge's Larry Augustin: A Better Way to Build Web Apps
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| LinuxInsider: When you helped build what would become the open source
| developers network, did you anticipate that this type of software would
| become so integral to modern programming?
|
| Larry Augustin: It's really tough to go back and put yourself back in that
| mindset. We all had a sense at the time [that software development] was a
| one-way street. That's what's interesting about open source and the GPL. Once
| software goes into the GPL, you can't take it back. People can stop
| contributing, but the code that exists, people can continue to develop on it.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/62155.html
More secure:
Mozilla's Security Guru Window Synder on Openness as a Padlock
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| In 2006, Mozilla's Firefox Internet browser boasted a mere nine days of
| vulnerability (the time between when a security threat is discovered and when
| it's fixed) compared with Internet Explorer's whopping 284 days. While the
| latter reigns as the most popular browser for U.S. users, it's clear that
| Mountain View, Calif.-based Mozilla is working feverishly to ensure that
| cyber-surfers using its system are kept safe from hackers, phishers and other
| online threats.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/62170.html
New major release:
SpringSource Releases Tool Suite
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| SpringSource, the company behind the Spring Framework, is rolling out the
| SpringSource Tool Suite.
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http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/SpringSource-Releases-Tool-Suite/
Recent:
The Total Growth of Open Source
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| The significance of open source has been continuously increasing over time.
| Our research validates this claim by looking at the total growth of open
| source. Our work shows that the additions to open source projects, the total
| project size (measured in source lines of code), the number of new open
| source projects, and the total number of open source projects are growing at
| an exponential rate.
|
| Our results open gates for further research around the growth of open source
| and the acceptance of open source in industry and government. Future research
| should explore questions like what factors are influencing this exponential
| growth, how source code growth relates to the number of engaged software
| developers, and whether or how long open source can sustain this exponential
| growth.
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http://www.riehle.org/publications/2008/the-total-growth-of-open-source/
Microsoft's SEC filing
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| [Microsoft:] A prominent example of open source software is the Linux
| operating system..... To the extent open source software gains increasing
| market acceptance, sales of our products may decline, we may have to reduce
| the prices we charge for our products, and revenue and operating margins may
| consequently decline.
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http:// www. microsoft.com/msft/SEC/default.mspx
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I ask
| you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
|
| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
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