These companies are either adding support services to an existing open source project or creating software and using open source as a marketing technique.

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Netflix said that as part of the project it is sharing its hardware design and the open source software components of the server used in the project.

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Apache, a software project of the open source movement, claims the majority of the Web server market.

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