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Eclipse Foundation members Bjorn Freeman-Benson and Ward Cunningham came to OSU to give a presentation in Professor Budd’s Open Source Development class. The title of the talk was “Software Creativity the Wiki Way.” Ward Cunningham is, of course, the inventor of the wiki-web concept, as well as being coinventor (with Kent Beck) of CRC cards, and part developer of the ideas of extreme programming. After the talk Bjorn blogged some nice comments on the experience, which you can read here .

Update: a video of the presentation can be found here.

Rene Reitsma, Oregon State Business Professor, presented the issues involved in creating an Open Source business and some of the strategies used by IBM, VA Linux and Red Hat. Attention was also given to the issue of total cost of ownership for companies using OSS to run their businesses. A recording of the presentation can be found on Google video and the slides can be found on the CS419 website.