[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."
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| 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.
|
| [...]
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| 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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