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Yahoo Gives Hadoop A Big Hug
By Doug Caverly · February 20, 2008

Yahoo’s done one impressive thing after another since Microsoft threatened to acquire it, and now, in a step that should make the open source community proud, Yahoo has announced that it’s running "the world’s largest Hadoop application, a 10,000 core Linux cluster producing data used by the Yahoo! Search Webmap."

Gartner: Open Source To Be Widely Popular By 2012
By Doug Caverly · February 4, 2008

Like eating fruits and vegetables or building lighter cars, open-source technology seemed like the sort of good idea that would always go ignored. But according to Gartner, elements of open-source technology will be present in 80 percent of all commercial software by the year 2012.

Rethinking the OSS Business Model
By Savio Rodrigues · January 15, 2008

Fleury and Rodrigues Separated at Birth?

Come on, you have to admit, the resemblance is uncanny. I’m obviously kidding. I’m much better looking. His sizable bank account and ability to keep a beat probably balances the score though

The Consensus About the Future of Marketing
By James Cherkoff · December 18, 2007

Is it just me, or is there now a consensus in the world of marketing about the future?

Does Open License Mean Open Season?
By WebProNews Staff · November 16, 2007

The unattributed verbatim appearance of a Wikipedia article in a book from a major publisher sparked accusations of plagiarism, and raises more serious issues of ethics as well as the perils of publishing under open licenses.

Zude Is Cool, Dude
By WebProNews Staff · October 10, 2007

In a time where having a website seems to mean running a blog, Zude offers a sophisticated, straight ahead way to build a site through the easiest drag and drop process imaginable.

OS Licensing for SaaS
By Ross Mayfield · July 12, 2007

Open Source came before, if not provided a platform for, Software as a Service. Open Source Licenses have a big loophole for the most common method of software distribution today. Tim O’Reilly addresses this while making yet another argument for open data.

Open Source Expert: Google Not A Team Player
By Doug Caverly · May 24, 2007

Google makes rare books available for free, protects the environment, and gives grants to many non-profit organizations. But in at least one respect, the company may not be so generous; General Public License (GPL) author Eben Moglen feels Google should contribute more to the open source community.

Microsoft Declaring War on Firefox, Linux
By Jordan McCollum · May 16, 2007

Microsoft has announced that they’ll be suing open-source software companies, developers and even users for patent infringement—on 235 patents.

Adobe Flex Enters Open Source
By WebProNews Staff · April 26, 2007 · 1

Adobe hopes to attract more developers to their Flex platform by releasing its SDK under terms of the Mozilla Public License.

Open Source: It’s The Service, Silly
By WebProNews Staff · April 24, 2007

While the stock market has minted a few tech people as billionaires, including the richest geek on the planet, the most successful in the open source movement probably won’t touch the same level of wealth.

Bloated Shelf-ware
By Savio Rodrigues · February 21, 2007

I’ve been catching up on some reading and found the comments to a post from Dana very interesting.

Here’s a summary (although the comments are worth a read):

Free Software – Should it Be Free?
By Savio Rodrigues · January 24, 2007

By now, you’ve probably heard about or read Mark Shuttleworth’s view on keeping free software free. Matt Asay has a take on Mark’s post here.

Open Source Needs More Concerted Efforts
By Sam Jose · January 17, 2007

Major corporate houses choose open source partly due to the economic gains and mainly due to the control the open source system gives to their hands.

Open Source and Career Opportunities
By Savio Rodrigues · January 16, 2007 · 1

Matt Asay has some good advice for folks asking him for career advice: “Work for an open source company.”

Open Source Second Life’s Next Steps
By Neville Hobson · January 10, 2007

Monday’s announcement by Linden Lab that the software you run on your computer to interact with Second Life will be opened up to anyone who wants to contribute to its future development generated wide-ranging commentary in the media and among bloggers.

Integrating w/ (Future) Competition
By Savio Rodrigues · January 10, 2007

Alex Fletcher has a nice list of hypothetical new year’s resolutions for the open source community.

Open Source Software Closer to Commercial Enterprise Software
By Strani Izdelava · January 9, 2007

The odds are good that the LAMP stack is running somewhere inside your company.

SL, Open Source and Franchising
By Savio Rodrigues · January 9, 2007

Interesting news that Linden Labs have open sourced the Second Life client source code under GPLv2.

Developing Countries Breeding Grounds for Open Source
By Savio Rodrigues · January 5, 2007

Red Herring’s Falguni Bhuta predicts “More (Open Source) momentum in developing countries“:

Java and Open Source
By Madison Lockwood · January 2, 2007

In November, Sun Microsystems moved to “open source” status for Java, after a decade of maintaining proprietary status for the portable programming language.

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