November 3 Open Source News

Big business bullies EU into open source U-turn Register By John Oates • Get more from this author The European Union has long promoted open source software, but it seems that years of expensive lobbying by big ...

VIDEO: Open source software battles offer a lesson for business Central Valley Business Times In today's new business TV show, redhat founder Bob Young tells the story of the company he created, and how open source development revolutionised the ...

Open source database company 10gen raises $3.4M VentureBeat The New York company developed MongoDB, an open source database for web applications that's being used by open source repository SourceForge, ..

Dumb Pipes ? Why Skype Treads Carefully With Open Source Washington Post Skype's Linux version will soon become open source software ¿ and maybe run on every smartphone, TV set-top box or other gadget powered by the free ...

Yahoo Open Sources Traffic Server Washington Post Tomorrow, Yahoo will be debuting an open source version of Traffic Server. The code is available through the Incubator project at the Apache Software ...

Skype for Linux set for open source Register "We realize the potential of the open source community," she wrote in an email, "and believe that making Skype for Linux an open source application will ...

Microsoft Embraces Open Source (in the Online Ad Business) ReadWriteWeb (blog) The guys who benefit from this tactic today are the good folks at OpenX, the open-source alternative to ad servers from Google such as DoubleClick (for big ...

Google: The open-source savior we deserve CNET News by Matt Asay For years, open-source advocates have been praying for someone to free us from Microsoft's proprietary grasp. We've prayed in vain as Linux, ...