Are negative U.S. socioeconomic factors working in favor of open source? Red Hat president/CEO Jim Whitehurst said at the Open Source Business Conference that overseas disdain for the U.S. is helping.....Likewise, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth said on a panel this week that the weakening U.S. economy is benefitting open source.....CNet has an interesting report on how CBS Interactive is aggressively adopting open source.....A survey from OpenLogic says open source developers are motivated by both money and altruism.....
