Supporting the projects and institutions advancing open source software and hardware helps ensure the continued success and advancement of open source technologies. The teams at Oregon State and Portland State have done great open source work in the past, and we're excited to back their joint efforts.

[She also said open-source software, such as Linux, is another key element in this new world.] It is at its core open, ... this movement, of course, goes far beyond Linux.

We know that many software projects fail, and most projects fail the same way. But instead of taking that as a call to arms, a rallying cry to avoid the common pitfalls and well-understood problems, a lot of software developers and managers take comfort in the fact that they're surrounded by lots of other failing projects!

Great computer hardware is only a doorstop without great software.

HARDWARE ....................SOFTWARE
Car...................................Petrol
Tube-light, fan....................Electricity
Book.................................Story
Tape-recorder..................Music recorded
TV.....................................Serials, TV programmes etc
Mobile...............................Symbian, Lollipop, Kitkat etc
Computer.........................MS DOS, Linux, Windows etc
Brain................................Mind
Society.............................Governance
Universe..........................GOD!!
So GOD is the Ultimate software, THAT runs the entire Universe from the spinning of an electron to the explosion of stars and formation of galaxies!!

Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.