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How Open Source Sparks Innovation and Advances Social Good

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Adopting an open source philosophy has proven to be quite effective for us at Benetech in our work furthering technology-for-good. I recently had the opportunity to give an interview for Red Hat’s online magazine, Opensource.com , and discuss Benetech’s culture of “open.”

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Microsoft: we were wrong about open source

The Verge

Microsoft has admitted it was wrong about open source, after the company battled it and Linux for years at the height of its desktop domination. Microsoft president Brad Smith now believes the company was wrong about open source. Microsoft president Brad Smith now believes the company was wrong about open source.

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Nuggets of news from the open source world

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

This is old-ish news, but the acquisition of companies behind open source software by big behemoths continues with the acquisition of Jabber by Cisco. Things might be shifting, though, due to both open source and SaaS as catalysts for change. Open Source, it can be SaaS and Open Source.

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New leap for open source CMS vendor

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Mpower Open, the vendor who took their high-end CRM/DMS product, MPX , open source last year, has adopted a new name, Orange Leap. Both new products are based in Java, and are going to be released as open source. Tags: opensource CRM Open Source Nonprofit Tech DMS.

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Serverless Stack raises $1M for open-source application framework

TechCrunch

Open-source framework startup Serverless Stack announced Friday that it raised $1 million in seed funding from a group of investors that includes Greylock Partners, SV Angel and Y Combinator. Where top VCs are investing in open source and dev tools (Part 1 of 2).

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Penpot inks $8M as signups for its open source spin on Figma jump 5600% after Adobe’s $20B acquisition move

TechCrunch

On a community level, however, designers and others were upset: They had adopted Figma precisely because it was not Adobe. ” Penpot’s choice of using open source-based technology to tackle this was intentional. Athos is a repeat backer: It also invested in an earlier $2.6 “Developers care about that.”

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Looking Back on Broadcom's VMware Acquisition: Price Hikes, Open Source Gains

ITPro Today

More than a year after Broadcom acquires VMware, its impact is evident rising costs, strategic shifts, minimal layoffs, and a surge in open source adoption as former VMware customers seek alternatives.