Google supports OSU's Open Source Lab
Oregon State University's Open Source Lab, recently received a tremendous vote of confidence from the search engine giant Google.
The company donated $300,000 to the lab, bringing its total contributions to $750,000. The gift will support growth and projects at the Corvallis lab which is an academic leader in open source development.
"Open Source" is a method for software licensing and distribution that ensures that anyone can copy the source code and modify it freely.
OSU's Open Source Lab has hosted some of the world's largest and most far-reaching open source efforts, including the Mozilla Firefox browser, portions of the One Laptop Per Child project, the Linux Foundation's main infrastructure, Apache Web Server and the Drupal content management system.
"Google's leadership in the open source area has not only helped key projects move forward, but has set an example for other leading technology organizations to get involved," said Curt Pederson, vice provost for Information Services at OSU and chief information officer for the Oregon University System. "We're grateful for their support of the Open Source Lab and are committed to continuing to fulfill the promises of collaboration and innovation that the open source model makes possible."
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