These companies are either adding support services to an existing open source project or creating software and using open source as a marketing technique.

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Netflix said that as part of the project it is sharing its hardware design and the open source software components of the server used in the project.

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Apache, a software project of the open source movement, claims the majority of the Web server market.

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The OpenStack Foundation and the Open Compute Project is a community of 150 companies committed to building cloud architecture based upon open source software and open hardware standards.

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The Open Compute Project intends to develop servers and data centers that follow the model traditionally associated with open source software projects.

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The project is producing open source Collaboration and Learning Environment (CLE) software with the first release in July 2004.

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The project consists of assembling and readapting a package of high quality free open source software in three languages (Arabic, French and English) and disseminating it in Arab countries on USB keys.

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Bender, who is in charge of software, says that operating in such an open manner has subjected his project to withering criticism because so many people were invited to see early versions nowhere near completion.

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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation demands that every research project it funds has to make its full data set freely available, like open-source software code.

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