Open Stack cloud services company, SoftLayer, seems to be doing the acquisition dance with a couple of suitors at the moment.

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Companies like Spike Source and SourceLabs tried to put together subscription-based models for productizing the open source stack.

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Neither worked out, probably because the open source software stack is not as generic and interchangable as the operating system.

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You can't do that with open outcry and a stack of paper certificates.

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Finally, the red category is reserved for iPhones that provide little function beyond holding down a stack of papers or propping open your door.

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He looked dapper in a dark suit and tie and proved a gracious host, speaking excellent, if not always idiomatic, English for 90 minutes in his suite at the posh Carlyle Hotel, where a lesser-known novel by Alexandre Dumas lay open on the coffee table and a stack of European films on DVD sat next to a flat-screen television.

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Obviously, the Android build used for Google TV isn't the same as what's used on phones -- in fact, unlike the phone version of Android, the Google TV stack is still proprietary within Google and hasn't been open-sourced yet.

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