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[News] The Drupal Free Software Project (Spinoff) Nets $7,000,000 in Funding

  • Subject: [News] The Drupal Free Software Project (Spinoff) Nets $7,000,000 in Funding
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 06:25:48 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
[No money in FLOSS, eh?]

Drupal developer bags $7 million

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| Announcing US$7 million in first round founding from North Bridge Venture 
| Partners, Sigma Partners, and O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, Buytaert and Jay 
| Batson, former CEO and founder of Pingtel, hope to steer their Drupal spun 
| startup Acquia deeper into the enterprise.   
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1547664640&rid=-50


Related:

Open-source tools open democracy's doors

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| According to a Vancouver Web guru, "You can't build a free and open society 
| using proprietary software." 
| 
| [...]
| 
| Nelson said Drupal started when a Belgian named Dries Buytaert was looking at 
| developing an on-line bulletin-board-style system for the co-op he was living 
| in, one that would enable people to exchange messages. Buytaert, then a 
| university student, still maintains a Web site at buytaert.net/ and, 
| according to Nelson, released the Drupal codebase under a GNU licence, 
| meaning it conforms to open source.     
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http://www.straight.com/article-117320/open-source-tools-open-democracys-doors


It's All About Freedom

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| A debate often heard among FOSS evangelists across the world, is that using 
| software is about "free as in freedom, not free as in beer". The libre vs. 
| gratis argument rings no less true for some of the richest corporations in 
| the world. I was recently at the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) in 
| San Francisco and I was struck by the sheer number of Fortune 500 
| corporations talking about their adoption of open source and explaining why 
| they've signed onto the movement.      
| 
| [...]
| 
| It's all about freedom: freedom to control, freedom to share, and freedom to 
| build the open standards needed to protect the future of freedom. 
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http://www.technetra.com/writings/archive/2007/07/02/its-all-about-freedom

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