Published at LXer:
Oregon State's computer department isn't a joking matter anymore. In October, the school's Open Source Lab, which Kveton runs as associate director, got a $350,000 grant from Google Inc.-the search-software company's first academic donation to support open source. The goals: to attract software companies to Portland, establish a development center for writing apps for use by state governments, and craft an open-source college curriculum.
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