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Readings for Today: 10/13/2008

Report Nine: Open Source Is Not a Business Model

How do vendors make money from free and open source software (FOSS)? The question is as old as FOSS itself, but over time it has shifted from a theoretical question — “How is it possible to generate revenue from something that is free?” — to a practical question — “What products and services do open source vendors provide that customers are prepared to pay for?”

Should I get a statement from Sun Microsystems? Or RedHat?


Crack WPA and WPA2 Passwords with your Graphics Card

ElcomSoft patent-pending GPU acceleration technology implemented in Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery allows using laptop, desktop or server computers equipped with supported NVIDIA video cards to break Wi-Fi encryption up to 100 times faster than by using CPU only.