Cost effective ways of digitizing AV materials and providing access were presented, such as using open source programs available on the web.
Yet the popularity of open-source programs such as the Linux operating system continued to grow.
In the long run, Linux and other open-source programs could cause Mr Gates much grief.
However, if you are interested, these open-source programs are designed to help you with the set up and linking.
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Black Duck's main offering, protexIP (IP, as in "intellectual property"), contains a library of open-source programs that software writers frequently incorporate into larger applications.
Open-source programs across the board - the Apache Web server, the Perl programming language and the GNU development tool set, to name a few - are gaining legitimacy as a business platform.
Conversely, having realised that they can economise on resources and garner good ideas, proprietary software firms are increasingly taking a liking to open-source programs, albeit mostly at the edges of their offerings.
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Just as cheap personal computers undermined the mainframe business in the 1980s and open-source programs like Linux and Mysql are challenging Microsoft and Oracle today, outfits like Fastcase are attacking Wexis' stranglehold on legal research from the bottom up.
We should be looking to expand the education experiment using new technology, better education programs, and collaboration utilizing open-source resources.
But other investors have an inkling that many big programs will eventually be written the open-source way.
In an essay on his personal site that's been circulating the interwebs, Marc Deslauriers outlines the pangs he and the Linux community have felt over the years trying to use iPods on the open source platform, surmising that Apple is intentionally and repeatedly seeking ways to block non-iTunes programs from syncing in any way with its devices.
The open source movement is campaigning hard to persuade even the largest software companies, like Microsoft, to open up their programs and let everyone look for errors or security problems.
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