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Open source on campus: The Stanford Open Source Lab

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Red Hat Magazine; By Ruth Suehle
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Over the last few months, open source has gained momentum at Stanford University in the form of the Stanford Open Source Lab. Inspired by groups like the Free Software Foundation, Oregon State University’s Open Source Lab, Drupal, Openflows Community Technology Lab, and MIT’s Open Course Ware, a few people at Stanford decided to band together and dedicate their time and energies to the development of free/open/libre learning and knowledge resources.

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The organizers of the Stanford Open Source Lab could almost be perceived as clandestine rebels fighting against the secretly repressive big government/empire.

Who is the renown alma mater of Stanford who has so actively "advised" Stanford's venture capitalists, as well as business and computer science students, on MS-related matters ?? (http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2007/mar07/03-15...) Hint: A severe understatement to suggest that this particular Stanford alma mater is _NOT_ particularly beloved by the FSF or by most readers of LXer!

Who is the influential person the Stanford building is named after, which houses the Computer Science Department (CSD) and the Computer Systems Laboratory (CSL) ?? (http://cs.stanford.edu/Info/)

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