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[News] Another Embrace of the GPL and Open Source as a Business Model

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Pentaho Releases Business Intelligence Platform Under GPL License

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| Pentaho Corp., the commercial open source alternative for business 
| intelligence (BI), today announced that its current version 2 alpha release 
| of the Pentaho BI Platform, as well as future versions, will be distributed 
| under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2 (GPLv2).   
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http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/103804/index.html

Another one:

MPower CEO Randy McCabe: Open Source for Nonprofits

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| Question: Why did you decide to go open source?
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| Answer: Moving to an open source model has been our plan for some time now. 
| Over the last year, although we have made significant enhancements to our 
| product and service offerings, we also have recognized the inherent 
| shortcomings of the proprietary software business model.    
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/63284.html


Recent:

Irreconcilable conflict between $ and Open Source ?!

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| I guess this particular attorney has never heard of Red Hat (aiming for $1
| billion in revenue), Oracle (runs its own infrastructure on open source
| software), Cisco (world's largest networking vendor that is now backing
| Linux) and many other for profit vendors that all have somehow RECONCILED
| open source and profit
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http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2008/06/legal-firm-warns-of-irreconcil.html
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