Google spreads open source love
Elinor Mills Former Staff Writer
Elinor Mills covers Internet security and privacy. She joined CNET News in 2005 after working as a foreign correspondent for Reuters in Portugal and writing for The Industry Standard, the IDG News Service and the Associated Press.
Google is contributing $350,000 to a joint open-source technology initiative at Oregon State University and Portland State University. The initiative will encourage open-source hardware and software development, develop academic curricula and provide computing infrastructure to open-source projects around the world.
The funding comes after Google spent $2 million for a "Summer of Code" program to select students working on open-source projects. Open-source software is designed to allow others to modify the code and distribute it freely.