Earlier at the conference, Silicon Graphics gave the open-source community another nod of corporate approval by tapping C2Net as a partner in its Internet service strategy.

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To people in Silicon Valley, this is a primary source of growth.

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Silicon Valley has also developed into a major source of political contributions for President Obama and other lawmakers, rivaling traditional media companies.

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The recession has changed the thinking of Silicon Valley companies, shaking their faith in advertising as their only source of revenue.

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You Are Not a Gadget is a manifesto in the starkest sense of the term: Lanier fully articulates his final and somewhat absolute break with the open source movement typified by what he describes as the "Libertarians" of Silicon Valley and the proponents of Web 2.0.

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Silicon Valley totally gets this with giants like Google driving do good efforts through their support of players like Sama Source, Charity Water and Random Hacks of Kindness.

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