Showing posts with label open source companies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label open source companies. Show all posts

08 November 2007

What's Wikipedia Got Against Open Source?

This is curious:

In case you didn't notice, Openbravo does not have an entry in the English edition of the Wikipedia, the fine community driven encyclopedia.

For some reason, the word Openbravo has been "blacklisted" and any attempt to create an entry about Openbravo gets automatically deleted.

Given the open source-y nature of Wikipedia, you would have thought it would have had a natural tendency to look favourably on open source companies like Openbravo. So what gives, Jimmy?

07 July 2006

Where in the World Are...OSS Companies?

If you've ever wondered where all these new and not-so-new open source companies are based, but can't be bothered looking them all up online, here's a nice mashup that shows the physical location of many of them. All we need now is a similar map for all the coders.... (Via Matthew Aslett.)