April 30th, 2010 
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Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, says that a large part of the success of Wikipedia is due to taking an open approach to content, as GigaOM reports . The widely used “open-source encyclopedia” has grown to the point where it now includes 3.2 million articles.
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Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales On Being Open
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Tags: danese-cooper, doing-something, downsides, end-item, Interview, jimmy wales, open-approach, Success, wales, wikipedia 
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Former Sun chief open source officer Simon Phipps is joining the Open Source Initiative (OSI) board effective April 1st. Let’s hope Phipps can shake the organization up a bit. I’d hazard a guess that many newcomers to the open source community are partially or even wholly unaware of the OSI and what it’s meant to do, because the OSI has not been a terribly dynamic organization over the past few years
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Will Simon Phipps Energize OSI?
Posted in Open Source News Tags: board, danese-cooper, director, open source initiative, organization, osi, past, patent-trolling, seen-as-dormant, software-titans, source, sun, supreme-court No Comments »
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