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www.kaporcreative.com Mitch Kapor congratulates civiCRM on its progress and success as a sustainable open source CRM software product for nonprofits. Produced by Kapor Creative Directed & Animated by Trevor Parham Illustrations by Jake Mix Sponsored by Mitchell Kapor Foundation http

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Mitch Kapor on CiviCRM and Open Source Software

The is the second half of our interview with Brendan Sera-Shriar at Confoo. In this clip, Brendan discusses his thoughts on Microsoft’s efforts to engage the open-source community. As Brendan explains, his first impressions of Microsoft’s efforts were skepticism, but as he looked into it, he realized that some other open-source web developers were involved and that Microsoft seemed to be genuine to both support and get involved in the open-source community.

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Brendan Sera-Shriar on Microsoft’s Open-Source Strategy

Is WordPress killing web design? Leading creatives from the world of web design debate whether CMS tools have made designers lazy, and created a new set of design conventions that designers feel obliged to follow.

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SXSW 2010: Is WordPress Killing Web Design

We talk to Lee Williams about the news that the Symbian Foundation has completed the move to open source. The Symbian platfrom is now completely open source and is available under and EPL license. Why is this important to Symbian? Why is this important to developers?

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Lee Williams on the completion of Symbian’s move to open source

No, Seriously: Microsoft Patents Page Up & Page Down gigaom.com When Two Clicks Equal One Patent www.wired.com Microsoft obtained yesterday patent 7617530, a “rights elevator”: www.againstmonopoly.org Microsoft’s “Google Base” is Code Named Fremont & MS Receives Patent For Semi-Auto Annotation of Multimedia Objects blog.searchenginewatch.com Stupid Patent Tricks www.groklaw.net

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You can make Money On Opensource: Just don’t Piss Of the Community that feeds you.

A bit on Opensource, Free Software, Freeware some links www.softwarefreedom.org www.fsf.org www.microsoft.com www.opensource.apple.com www.gnu.org

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Opensource & Free Software