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Submission + - Harvard Follows The Money

Submitted by methosman on Tuesday January 23, 2007 @09:59PM

methosman writes: Surprise, surprise — Harvard follows the money and says big corporations focus spending on open source to make money for other parts of their "mainly proprietary, core businesses" in "the old saw of the razor/razor blade business model." But is it good or bad to be "a business tool that has been used by a variety of corporations for very logical purposes"??? http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5574.html

Virtualbox Goes OSS 75

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday January 15, 2007 @02:16PM from the cut-a-hole-in-the-box dept.

paltemalte writes to tell us that VirtualBox has gone open source. InnoTek released their virtualization product as open source and launched virtualbox.org to help cultivate the community and allow further development of the software.

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