Additionally, Broadcom's standards-based software stack implements NFC Forum specifications, including NFC Controller interface (NCI), to support multiple operating systems.

ENGADGET: Broadcom intros quad-combo, fast single-card wireless chipsets that put NFC at center stage

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

FORBES: Red Hat At $1 Billion

Also a supporter of Washington Mutual based on value and yield is James Stack of InvesTech Research, who's still up 16% on his WaMu investment and content to hold it.

FORBES: Magazine Article

The Dow Jones Industrial Average has experienced around 20 bear markets, averaging a duration of one and a half years from top to bottom, says James Stack, president of InvesTech Research, a US-based market tracking firm.

BBC: Explaining a bear market

The third-generation Gobi modem chipsets also have an integrated application processor and hardware accelerators with a feature rich, Linux-based application development environment and optional mobile access point software stack.

ENGADGET: Qualcomm's Gobi modem chipsets combine 84Mbps HSPA+, LTE-Advanced

Using a nifty algorithm, Work for Pie ranks coders by skill, based on quantitative data pulled from various online technical communities, including GitHub, Bitbucket, Stack Overflow and Hacker News.

FORBES: Patient Capital