[SLUG] Interesting news

[Ian Eade]

Something that landed in my inbox:

The Open (Source) University
Magnanimous Google has provided Oregon and Portland universities with a
grant for $500,000 to encourage open source hardware and software
development. This will probably lead to open source getting a
disproportionately high level of attention on their curricula, and will
in turn get the venture capitalists all excited about the hothouse
possibilities. This is the type of ‘butterfly wing’ event that could
trigger the next wave of technology euphoria! Will Microsoft respond by
directing its benevolence towards sponsoring a closed source/highly
proprietary software research centre? Or will it sit back and let nature
take its ‘course’.


Ian

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