This fell outside the scope of Bishop's work but he conducted open source record research for her and collected and reviewed classified information on the topic, the affidavit said.

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Cost is once again the main reason why companies are turning to open source, says Jeffrey Hammond of Forrester Research, a consultancy.

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Moreover, the philosophy of open source has started to enter into the framework of research.

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Open source has also had a tremendous impact on how academics do research.

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Market research firms also predict a bright future for open source software.

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Matsumoto will continue his work as research fellow of the Network Applied Communication Laboratory, an open source systems integrator company in Shimane Prefecture, Japan.

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But ubiquitous digital consumer data, cheap computing power and open-source software have created a tremendous opportunity for smart marketers to change the research game.

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The change came as Itron's research group in Paris realized it could exploit inexpensive new wireless chips and open-source software to create a so-called mesh network of electric meters that passed information among themselves, like firemen in a bucket brigade, instead of relying on expensive and less reliable individual connections to the Internet.

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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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