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Open Source Doesn't Need Billionaires

Andy Patrizio, over at InternetNews.com, is trotting out that tired old question once again: where are the open source billionaires? as if that was somehow relevant or necessary for open source to be worthwhile. Patrizio also suggests that open source is being carried by large vendors, but doesn't seem to grasp the benefits that the vendors are getting out of open source.



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OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta Ships

OpenOffice.org, the open source office suite originally derived from Sun's corresponding StarOffice product, is out with the first public beta of version 3.0.

While the new features are not revolutionary, this is a solid release that's plenty good enough for many users to adapt as their primary office suite. There is definitely good news for Mac users.



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Sun Financials: Not Good News for Open Source

Sun Microsystems has announced its 3rd Quarter earnings - and its stock promptly took a substantial hit. No wonder, since the company managed to report a loss of $34 million instead of the profit that analysts were expecting, and may be cutting up to 7.5% of its employees - 2500 jobs. While this certainly isn't good news for Sun, it's not great news for open source either, since the company has staked its future on shipping all of its assets as open source, including the recently-purchased MySQL database.


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