- Happy birthday, Mozilla! Ten years ago, Netscape released its source code. Today, Firefox claims 125 million users.
- CNET posted this week about the NowHouse project, which you’ve learned about on Red Hat Magazine twice. (Read Part 1 and Part 2.) Check out CNET’s gallery of plan designs!
- Project VGA is working on a low-budget, open source, VGA-compatible video card. Their goal is to provide something you can build yourself as well as an option for buying it from them.
- PC World reports that open source spending in schools is expected to rise in the next few years. The study cited predicts that schools will spend $489.9 million on open-source software by 2012, an increase from $286.2 million today.
- In a similar vein, ZDNet posts that the open source business model is reaching a tipping point. “With the recent fundings and transactions, the financiers are no longer questioning whether open source, or software-as-a-service, are viable business models.”
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