Google and Oregon Launch Open Source Initiative

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday October 25, 2005 @12:32PM 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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Re:A prediction by Azi+Dahaka · 2005-10-25 14:03 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Easy +5 insightful/interesting: In any thread regarding an open source-supportive company or FOSS project being praised, all you need to do is post a comment, "If Microsoft were to do this it would be decried!"

These should be -1 Off Topic. These comments have nothing to do with the story and are misleading anyway. Most stories posted about Microsoft are about their latest shenanigans, so obviously most posts are critical of them. The few times Microsoft have been victimized by patents or done something positive a good portion of posts are supportive of Microsoft.

Instead it's free karma for saying nothing of worth.