Open Source Advertising

“It is possible that what emerges could drive the development of ‘open source advertising’ “, said Eric Schmidt of Google in an announcement of a joint partnership with advertising conglomerate Publicis Groupe.
According to the vague claims in the statement, the companies plan on developing “tools and business intelligence” that would not necessarily be proprietary…
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Google Highly Open Participation Contest?

Very nice, Google announced a program to promote Open Source with secondary and high-school students.
Read more (TechCrunch)

Open Source irony

TechCrunch posted a note about Zoho supplying offline capabilities to their online Document Processor - Writer.
The irony mentioned by Michael Arrington is that this functionality was achieved by using the Open Source Google Gears and beating Google that are working on similar functionality for Google Docs & Spreadsheets.

Microsoft vs. Google

Ashlee Vance over at The Register wrote an article “Microsoft vs. Google – the open source shame” with a detailed description of the forum wars between Chris DiBona, Google’s Open Source manager, and Bill Hilf, Microsoft’s Open Source chief.
The topic of the debate, of course, is Microsoft’s latest move of submitting two licenses for approval […]