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Current Newswire: This is Why I Love Linux Boxee now open to all Ubuntu users A New, Easy To Use Disk Formatter For GNOME Help On The Way: Five Great Linux Support Sites Artwork for Ubuntu Jaunty Already Impressive Memo to Dell: Pump Ubuntu Into Your Global Partner Network Vietnam to widely use open source software Commercial open source business strategies in 2009 and beyond ReactOS - Open Source Windows New Freescale processors target Linux netbooks Unix/Red Hat Systems Adminsitrator The Computer Merchant, Ltd US-PA-Lansdale Post A Job | Post A Resume Good and Bad Reasons to Open Source Your Software Sep 27, 2007, 01 :00 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (2459 reads) (Other stories by Ibrahim Haddad and Frederic Benard) "A company's decision to contribute to open source projects is usually business-driven. This article offers a review of the top reasons that can influence your company to contribute source code to open source or to start new open source projects. "1. Provide a reference implementation to a standard: Open source is a potential venue to launch reference implementations of a specification or standard, with the added benefit that such implementations can gain faster acceptance than if they were kept proprietary..." Complete Story Related Stories: The Wrong Reason To Choose Open Source(Sep 22, 2007) Reasons That Qtopia Went Open Source(Sep 20, 2007) No talkbacks posted.   Home | Search Talkbacks | Customize View    Top of Page   Enter your comments below: * Your Name: * Your Email Address: * Subject: CC: [will also send this talkback to an E-Mail address] * Comments: Tags allowed:<I>,<B> and <U>. See our talkback-policy for more about talkback content. Fields marked with * are required!

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