Google is spearheading a volunteer workforce it hopes will become the centralized authority for responding to security issues in open source software.

"The Google Group for discussion of the project is created. http://groups.google.com/group/emacs-on-rails "

While stopping short of volunteering to host the event, Mozilla chief security official Window Snyder said that it could prove helpful for the open-source community to meet at its own conference to debate secure coding, vulnerability reporting, and product patching issues.

"I received an email this morning from a friend who is planning to put his open source project in Google Code, the open source repository hosted by Google..."

Every year Google somehow finds a way to up its contributions to the open source community and 2008 looks to be no different. For Google Summer of Code (SoC) 2008, Google is paying for 1,125 student developers, which is an increase from the 900 students the program took in 2007.

Following on from the success of the Google Summer of Code program, Google is pleased to announce this new effort to get young people involved in open source development. We've teamed up with the open source projects listed here to give student contestants the opportunity to learn more about and contribute to all aspects of open source software development

Google apparently likes open source that lets it "borrow" open-source software while giving comparatively little back, and always on Google's terms.

A man has been in the dessert for a week without water and comes across three different groups of people who have water to spare [a group of software engineers, a group of sales reps, and a group of open source zealots]. Will he be able to quench his thirst?

"The Linux Foundation Wednesday revealed that two attorneys well-known in the open-source community will make up the legal team for the group, which is aimed at protecting the interests of Linux in the community."