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We’ve seen a lot of open source announcements in the news lately—something we first covered last November. Since then, the announcements have continued, thick and fast. Here are two announcements involving some of the world’s biggest companies from the last few days alone: Apple moves to third-generation Siri back-end, built on open source Mesos platform Microsoft’s open source ambitions pick up speed Why are all these huge, multi-national corporations scrambling to embrace open source? Apple and Microsoft have almost bottomless budgets to develop their own proprietary software, don’t they? So what’s in it for them? What is open source? Before […]

One of the most controversial companies in the WordPress ecosystem is Envato, the company that owns the theme and template marketplace, ThemeForest. ThemeForest’s best selling product category is WordPress themes, and they are a behemoth in this space. As Envato’s blog states: “In September 2014, ThemeForest was the 88th most trafficked website in the world (according to Alexa.com), at the time ahead of Netflix.” But in a poll run by Jeff Chandler of WPTavern.com, only twenty-eight percent of respondents said “ThemeForest is a great place to find a variety of good looking themes.” Fifty percent said “it is a marketplace […]