"On May 14, 2008, The Perl Foundation received a philanthropic donation of US$200,000 from Ian Hague. Mr. Hague is a co-founder of Firebird Management LLC, a financial fund management company based in New York City. This donation was the result of extensive discussions between Mr. Hague, The Perl Foundation and a Perl community member who wishes to remain anonymous..."
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Red Hat defends UK's open source record
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Is the UK really a laggard in open source? Red Hat denies there is any problem. "Red Hat does more business in the UK than in any other European country," Malcolm Herbert, senior manager of consulting practice at Red Hat UK, told ZDNet at the Open Source Forum event. "There's no problem with open source take-up in the UK."
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Novell’s Buybacks Not Enough, Says Analyst
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Yesterday we wrote about Novell’s new buyback program. There are some more reactions to it now. Sarcastically, for example, says the following guy: “Novell finds someone willing to buy $100M worth of its stock.”
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A caution about Drupal as a social software platform
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The open source package Drupal is one of the few social publishing platforms built on top of a longstanding Web CM (WCM) system. It has a strong foundation with a very flexible taxonomy system which -- along with thousands of 3rd-party modules -- enables you to assemble social publishing applications.
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