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Mobile infrastructure vendor Urban Airship of Portland delivered 100 million messages before taking its first outside funding today, a $1.1 million injection from two Seattle venture capitalists. But what CEO and co-founder Scott Kveton wants you to know about his four-man company is they're using open source. "We take advantage of a lot of open source tools to do what we do. We couldn't have done this five years ago." That's an unintended double entendre, albeit entirely clean. Phones like the iPhone made his business possible, but Kveton also wanted us to know open source tools were not as good back then. (Yes, we're talking about 2005. Kelly Clarkson dominated the airwaves, Shrek 2 dominated the box office, people were still hanging on library ...
Reductive to service Puppet open source configman tools - ZDNet

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Reductive to service Puppet open source configman toolsZDNetKey founders of Puppet have incorporated and received $2 million in venture capital funding to advance the open source configuration management software ...VC puts money in open source management softwareNetworkWorld.comReductive Labs looks to tap Oregon's open source communityOregonLive.comReductive Labs, Moving to Portland, Raises $2M for Open Source IT ...XconomyCNET News -Bizjournals.com -iTWireall 19 news articles »
Microsoft Puts Weight Behind Open Source Projects With Web … - Washington Post
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Microsoft Puts Weight Behind Open Source Projects With Web ...Washington Post, United States -Oct 16, 2008Microsoft isn't exactly known for championing open source projects. So it's rather surprising (in a good way) to see the company release something called ...Microsoft, OpenLogic Further Open Source EffortseWeekMicrosoft is NOT distributing open source Drupal, osCommerce ...InfoWorldMicrosoft to be biggest Open Source distributorIT ExaminerForbes - SitePointall 14 news articles
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The Free Software Foundation (FSF) doesn’t like Microsoft, doesn’t like software patents, it especially doesn’t like Microsoft’s patents, and it doesn’t trust the two of them in the same room together. It’s convinced that Microsoft is eventually going to sue any open source developer who uses Mono, the Novell-supported open source version of Microsoft’s .NET widgetry, or who writes open source programs in C#, the Microsoft development language. It’s warning off developers now because Microsoft has added both C# and Mono – or rather the ECMA 334 and 335 standards that embrace them – to its two-year-old irrevocable, legally binding Community Promise not to sue. (See www.microsoft.com/interop/cp/default.mspx.) read more
Microsoft beating Mozilla…in open-source licensing - CNET News
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Microsoft beating Mozilla...in open-source licensingCNET News, CAby Matt Asay The MS-PL is now used by 1.02 percent of open-source projects. This is impressive given that it was only approved by the Open Source Initiative some two years ago. The Mozilla Public License (MPL), by contrast, has been around for many ...Microsoft open-source license finds (some) loveRegisterall 2 news articles