Google Opens Pocket to Gadget Developers
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| It's a pilot program, with the aim of "bootstrapping an economic
| ecosystem around gadgets" - according to a press email we received.
| The program has two separate monetary offers.
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http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_opens_pockets_to_gadget_developers.php
Google gives money to contributors while Microsoft serves them with C&Ds...
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39287310,00.htm?r=1
What's Open Source Worth on Wall Street?
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| "Red Hat really is a bit of a lone wolf out there in terms of public
| open source companies," says Jim Zemlin, executive director of the
| Linux Foundation, a trade group. "Fund managers are clamoring for
| other benchmarks to measure open source software companies."
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| The company has carved a niche among Web companies that use its
| technology in conjunction with Linux and other open source software
| to run their sites on the cheap. "That's the aspiration of these
| companies -- they want to grow big, but they don't want to spend a
| lot of money to do it," says Zack Urlocker, MySQL's executive vice
| president of products. MySQL aims to sell its software for 90
| percent less than its competitors, he says.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/58054.html
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