A group of UC Davis researchers has just received a three-year, $750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study how open source software such as the Apache Web server is built. | via technews

another study on the topic, funded by the eu started 2005.

the 2-year project involves 17 partners in 12 countries around the world, who will share the Euro 660 000 (USD 830 000) grant from the EU's 6th Framework Research programme.

stanford research, 2003
mitsubishi research institute, 2004

"The question is not whether we will open-source Java, the question is how," Jonathan Schwartz | acm/cnet

¿how long took solaris, danese?

companies open source and free software guys have a problem with, because they are using code but not giving anything back to the community. well, yes, there are more of these. now even grokster's capitulation doesn't bring anything good for no one. oh well, washington post has the story ...