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Jonathan Schwartz's Blog: The Internet as a Customer

# Not a single company in the CTO room paid for software....# In contrast, not a single company in the CIO room allowed free software without a commercial support contract. Not one.

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Thunderbird Finds New Nest

The popular open source email client Thunderbird has found a new home, with the Mozilla Foundation announcing on Tuesday that its new Mozilla Messaging mail subsidiary is open for business.

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FOSSBazaar | FOSSBazaar

accelerate adoption of free and open source software in the enterprise

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Edge Principles: Advantage is in the DNA, Yahoo + Microsoft Edition | Bubblegeneration

"Corpocracies have a specific DNA: vertical integration, elaborate hierarchy, and lots of cronyism. Open source communities have another: no bosses, always-on negotiation, and open but deeply interdependent production."

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Open-source silver lining in Microsoft's $44.6 billion wedding vow to Yahoo?

"But the real question is whether a Yahoo-Microsoft combination could aggressively outflank and compete with Google in a range of other things beyond search."

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What I learned from Lineo's failure | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET Blogs

Would agree with most of this, apart from point 2 - maybe you can't go from 40->400 in a week based on developer tools, but that's not to say a business can't be built more organically

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An interview with Mozilla's Mitchell Baker - Strategy - Innovation - The McKinsey Quarterly

The company's chairman and former CEO explains the power of the participatory, open-source model of collaboration.

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Sun To Acquire MySQL [O'Reilly Radar]

"Sun Microsystems announced this morning that it has agreed to acquire open source database leader MySQL AB for $1 billion in cash and assumed stock options."

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Interop News: Can Sun make MySQL pay?

The reality is that – despite or more likely because of – its open source business model, MySQL wasn't growing fast enough or making enough money to entertain the prospect of an IPO...

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Conto

Conto is a simple application that allows you to keep track of your expenses and income on a monthly basis.

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