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“If you thought the RIAA had cornered the market on heavy-handed, misguided lawsuits, think again. TorrentFreak reports that the Societe civile des Producteurs de Phonogrammes en France (SPPF) plan on pursuing a lawsuit against three US-based companies that develop P2P source...

“The benefits of web apps (ubiquitous access, seamless upgrades, reliable storage, …) are many, but quite often users lose their freedom to study, modify and discuss the source code that powers those web apps.”

“Google (my current employer) has finally open sourced protocol buffers, the data interchange format we use for internal server-to-server communication. The blogosphere’s response? “No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.””

“Tellingly, Facebook was unable to line up any partners to add to today’s announcement”

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“Have you looked at libcoroutine? It's by the guy who created Io. I haven't looked at it personally, but it sounds worth investigating if your looking for libraries for such things.”

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On Wall Street, bankers are rooting around for a good open source company to take public. "People call us all the time," says John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla, which oversees the open source Firefox browser and Thunderbird mail application.

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“the story of the birth and evolution of Wordpress as well as his ’secret’ to success”

“HP today announced the contribution of its Tru64 UNIX Advanced File System (AdvFS) source code to the open source community.”

“About a week ago, the Facebook Data team quietly released the Cassandra Project on Google Code. The Cassandra project has been described as a cross between Google's BigTable and Amazon's Dynamo storage systems. An overview of the project is available more...

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