Nokia will support MeeGo as an open source initiative and expects to ship one MeeGo device in 2011, but my take here made it feel like the MeeGo effort more as a science experiment, than a product strategy.

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Facebook created an initiative called Open Compute to create open computer architectures, including open source storage architectures.

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This echoes arguments made by drug firms against makers of generic drugs. (Never mind that innovation in software tends to occur in universities and start-ups, not big firms.) Microsoft is advancing it through a lobby group, the Initiative for Software Choice, hoping to dissuade governments from using open-source software.

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