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Google and Oregon Launch Open Source Initiative

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the and-knowing-is-half-the-battle dept.

* * Beatles-Beatles tells us that Google is entering into a $350,000 joint open source technology venture with both Oregon State and Portland State Universities. From the article: "With the grant, the universities will collaborate to encourage open source software and hardware development, develop academic curricula and provide computing infrastructure to open source projects worldwide. The universities will also help provide a bridge between Oregon's universities and Oregon's growing open technology industry." Google also has their version of the announcement on blogspot.

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  1. Re:Google in State Universities? by CDPatten · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    lol, well they let Linux in...

    anyways I think the policy is just no christian religion in state schools.

  2. Re:not sure... by CDPatten · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Slow down cowboy, you have responded allot of posts on this topic and your responses are these have baked few liners. You racing somebody to see who has the most posts?

    Froogle is designed to take traffic from amazon's space. The idea is "Go to Froogle to buy something vs going to Amazon".

    Stop being such a no it all. Maybe if you slowed down a bit and stopped posting every ten seconds you would get a few more things right.

  3. Ya, like Google earth. by thirdrock · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Ya, dat Google loves open source.

    That's why every piece of software they make only runs on WinXP.

    Bah.

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