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Google Summer of Code 2011

crowdSPRING Blog

Since 2005, Google has led a wonderful open source program called Summer of Code. The goal of that program is to promote open source software development. Google has run this program every year since 2005, and the results are stunning. Related posts: Google Crowdsourcing Investments.

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You Don’t Need To Be An Engineering Genius To Start A Billion-Dollar Company

ReadWriteStart

As Kraus noticed in 2005, however, things were starting to change. ” By 2005, however, “Free, open source infrastructure [was] the norm,” with the ability to “get it anytime and anywhere.” While it seems quaint now, it used to be expensive to build an app and start a company around it.

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Google Summer of Code: 55 million lines of code released since 2005

The Next Web

Chris DiBona, the open source and public sector engineering manager at Google, was recently interviewed by Slashdot. ” I asked some friends in Open Source, “What if I gave you some students? To qualify, you must request for, and complete, a free and open-source software coding project during the summer.

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

The hardware trend showed that internet connection speeds were increasing, and by 2005, the speed of the connection would be sufficient that we could reasonably stream video in real time without resorting to heroic amounts of video compression or miracles in internet protocols. Nine years later, in February 2005, YouTube arrived.

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Accelerating Technology Change and Continuous Learning

Feld Thoughts

Every time you build your application, you are likely to have some new bugs or incompatibilities related to a change in the language or the libraries (especially open source libraries). From 1981, when the IBM PC was introduced, until about 2005, one could expect a personal computer system to have a lifespan of 3-5 years.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

Open-Source Software & Horizontal Computing. It was driven by the introduction of open-source software, most notably what was called the LAMP stack. Open source became a movement – a mentality. The Emergence of “Open Cloud&# Infrastructure.

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More "Open Source" Legal Tools

Altgate

Open source is the wrong term though; instead is probably better to say automate since LegalZoom and others are doing the same thing but commercially. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Management , Startups , Technology and tagged legal , open source , Privacy Policy , Terms of Service , website.