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Will Software Stay Free in Today's Economy?

Andrew Keen writes the following in a post titled: “Economy to Give Open-Source a Good Thumping”:

Construct Your Business Model With Open Source

The Building an Effective Commercial Open Source Strategy workshop was a great opportunity to share ideas and talk about business case examples with industry leaders and experts from all around the (mobile) world.

OSCON 2008: Open Source Conference

OSCON 2008 - the biggest open source convention in the world run by O'Reilly, celebrating this year its 10th anniversary, - will take place in Portland next week, bringing together more than 2500 professionals from all over the world.

Reddit Releases Open Source Code

When a PR contact from Reddit contacted us about "exciting news", a mixture of workload and getting sent press releases not remotely related to open source led me to ignore the request to meet with Reddit. My bad. The news is that Reddit has decided to open source the code behind reddit.com. The Reddit blog states:

Wordpress Basics for Your Next Website

Wordpress is web software for online publishing. Notice that I didn't use the word blog, even though wordpress is blogging software. It has been expanded to be A LOT more then that and shouldn't considered in the same class as most blogging software. It's a robust CMS (content management system) that empowers every type of website with users that include CNN, Playstation and the New York Times.