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2008
Random Sampler: Silicon Valley #1?, Microsoft wants open source to get paid more, etc.
Posted by: admin in Business and PoliticsI’m closing up my quarter today (Not sure who said open source is easy, but…. :-), but wanted to highlight a few of the more interesting stories I read this day.
- Despite my vain imaginings to the contrary, it turns out that Silicon Valley really is the center of the universe. Who knew? Well, except for you Silicon Valley smugsters? Actually, the real news in CNET’s article is how much R&D is moving away from the Valley.
- Red Hat is revealed as the driving force behind The Simpsons, whose writer and co-producer (Joel Cohen) credits Red Hat Enterprise Linux by suggesting that “the volume and speed of material that was created for the motion picture could never have been done without that Red Hat-fueled system. Cohen also shows a true understanding of innovation by declaring his own inspiration comes from “shamelessly ripping off other people’s ideas.”
- TechCrunch’s Erick Schonfeld takes a fascinating look at the growth of YouTube relative to Google, but questions its seeming inability to turn popularity into cash: “Either YouTube is unable to make money from a large portion of its user-generated video inventory….Or YouTube just hasn’t turned on the money-gushing hose yet.” (Sounds like an open-source quandary, no?)
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