January 9 Open Source News

Open source may be a venture capital dry hole ZDNet (blog) Most of the savings from open source go to customers, not financiers. You give away the software and, in hard times, most downloaders find it more expedient ...

Google and Android: The messy truth of open-source Downloadsquad (blog) Open-source development is one tricky can of worms. Unlike almost every other technology, time and energy and code is given freely by its developers. ...

Mozilla Drumbeat Aims to Expand Web Participation Datamation Open source has dramatically reshaped the software development landscape. Yet is it enough to help propel the Web itself forward for the next decade? ...

Jan 14: Emerging Technologies & Trends Series in RTP presented in partnership ... Carolina Newswire (press release) Open source enables companies to continuously improve their product utilizing partners and customers that use it the most. Join us for our first Emerging ...

Firefox for Maemo closing in on final release CNET Firefox 1.0 for Nokia's open-source Maemo platform can't be far behind. In addition to fixing "a major performance issue" plaguing the Nokia N900, ...

Wikileaks Funding Plan Could Be Risky Internet Evolution The open-source whistleblower site, Wikileaks, which according to The National has "produced more scoops in its short life than the Washington Post has in ...

Can Microsoft be lust-worthy? CNET Matt Asay brings a decade of in-the-trenches open-source business and legal experience to The Open Road, with an emphasis on emerging open-source business ...

Hands-On With Boxee Set-Top Box and Remote Wired News Boxee was previously a piece of open source software that you'd download to view media on your computer. Most users would download Boxee onto their notebook ...

Apps are calling, but can your phone answer? MacDailyNews (blog) They should have open sourced it, built the mobile phone partners to support and develop it in the Open source manner and then got out of the way. ...