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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. Google in State Universities? by pen · · Score: 5, Funny

    Isn't it policy to keep religion out of state schools? ;-)

    1. Re:Google in State Universities? by jzeejunk · · Score: 3, Funny

      only if it isn't designed intelligently ;)

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  2. Re:A prediction by Aadain2001 · · Score: 5, Funny

    You must be new here

    Open Source = Good
    Closed Source = The Devil

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  3. They're doing too much stuff by nEoN+nOoDlE · · Score: 3, Funny

    in the last 6 articles today, every other article is about google. Google is doing too much stuff, they need to spread their projects around a bit so I could get news about others companies and technological innovations as well.

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  4. Oregon Trail? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I hope google doesn't get dysentery

  5. Welcome by The-Perl-CD-Bookshel · · Score: 3, Funny

    Welcome to the new Googledot. Enjoy your stay!

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  6. News at 10 by Comatose51 · · Score: 2, Funny

    In other news, Oregon authorities have advised Oregon residents to keep an eye out for chairs being lobbed across the Oregon-Washington state border and are advised to duck.

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