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Big Money and Open Source May Not Compute
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| Open source has the adherents and the contributors, but what about the
| income? Patience, says the developers.
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| In this case, that would be Google, IBM, Sun, HP and other vendors that keep
| most open source programmers employed. Even Red Hat (NASDAQ:RHAT), the
| largest of the open source vendors, is dependent on Tier One hardware
| vendors, particularly IBM (NYSE:IBM). Of course, so was Microsoft in its
| early days.
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| Indeed, it's been that way for a while. Before he finally left the nest to
| work independently, Linux creator Linus Torvalds worked for chipmaker
| Transmeta. Sun has hired Ian Murdock of Debian fame, hired JRuby and Python
| developers, and bought MySQL. Take away the contributions of IBM, HP, Sun,
| and SGI, and Linux suddenly loses a lot of enterprise-level features.
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http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3744926/Big+Money+and+Open+Source+May+Not+Compute.htm
Recent:
VC funding for open source hits an all-time high
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| Incidentally, total funding to date stands at $2.64bn.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/04/01/vc-funding-for-open-source-hits-an-all-time-high/
Open-source venture investing hits an all-time high
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| Just when you thought venture interest in open source was quieting down,
| along comes the biggest quarter in open source's (still young) history:
| $203.75 million raised, as reported by The 451 Group. This trumped the
| previous record of $193.6 million from Q4 2006.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9907679-7.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=NewsBlog
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