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No details yet, but several large universities and open source industry heavyweights have agreed to common standards for open source materials.

Peter Loshin argues that, in the grand scheme of things, the risk of open source virulence is exagerrated.

Is Wikipedia rightly referred to as Open Source?

This article details a part of the thought process for businesses as they confront an IT business product universe increasingly populated with OS infused products.

Pentaho creates open source business intelligence software and sold a $5M Preferred Round.

The Free Software Foundation has set up a new website for the GPL3 revision process.  Among other things, it has also posted a set of guidelines for the revision process.  The first discussion draft of the revisions is anticipated to be released on January 16 or 17th, 2006.

An interesting blog post by David Belkind examines Rosen’s comments and anticipates the effects of MS’s terms.

A number of OS oriented Tech companies have popped up in Portland.

Mapserver Enterprise is Autodesk’s new web mapping platform and will be licensed under the LGPL.

As the Open Document format war heats up here in Massachusetts, Microsoft cozies up to Quinn’s and the Governor’s enemies.