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Open-source content management firm Nuxeo lands $3.3M
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| The funding will support partnership
| initiatives, application development,
| marketing and product launches and new
| hires.
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http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2010/06/21/daily37-Open-source-content-management-firm-Nuxeo-lands-33M.html
Open Source ECM Nuxeo Gets US$ 3.3 Funding Influx
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| Nuxeo says it will be using the money to
| fund partner activities, such as funding
| co-development of third-party packaged
| applications, sharing Nuxeo engineering
| and services resources, as well as joint
| marketing and product launch activities.
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http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-cms/open-source-ecm-nuxeo-gets-us-33-funding-influx-007886.php
Venture Capital Continues To Pour Dollars In To Commercial Open Source
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| Nuxeo is not the only open source company
| to announce capital raises recently
| though. Opscode, a Seattle based IT
| infrastructure start up just announced an
| 11 million dollar round and the release of
| its open source based Chief product.
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http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/62863
Recent:
Software patents are the problem not the answer
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| Nathan supports this argument by comparing the
| current market for intellectual property to
| the early days of the computer industry. He
| argues that in the 1970s people did not
| believe the software industry could be an
| independent business and that it would always
| be linked to hardware. He says that software
| industry developed for two reasons. First,
| software vendors persuaded software users to
| respect intellectual property rights through
| both education and lawsuits, and second, the
| vendors overcame system incompatibilities and
| developed solutions that would work on
| different computers. Nathan suggests that a
| market for inventions would emerge if the same
| two conditions are met, and then offers his
| company Intellectual Ventures as a model for
| how to meet them.
|
| I do not agree. Here's why.
|
| Let's start with software analogy. Put aside
| the fact that in the 70's software vendors
| used copyright law to prevent the outright
| copying of their software and not patents as
| Nathan proposes to do. The real reason the
| independent software industry emerged is that
| operating systems and APIs made it possible
| for independent software vendors to develop
| applications independently. They no longer had
| to ask permission of the hardware vendors.
| This same characteristic of permissionless
| innovation led to the explosion of
| independently created services on the
| internet. The rampant abuse of the patent
| system has created the opposite condition for
| the creators of software and web services
| today.
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http://www.unionsquareventures.com/2010/02/software-patents-are-the-problem-not-the-answer.php
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