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Babbage, Charles
backward compatibility and share modes in Win32
Baker, Mitchell 2nd
Baldwin, C.
Banco do Brasil, adoption of Java
Barnesandnoble.com vs. Amazon.com
Barrapunto news site
Bastiat, Frederic
Bastok, Frédéric
Bates, Jeff 2nd
Bayh-Dole act of 1980
Beagle, Christine
"because of" money-making principle
Behlendorf, Brian 2nd
"benevolent dictatorship", acting as, in OSS projects 2nd
Bentler, Yonchai
Berners-Lee, Tim
Bernstein, Daniel J.
Bernstein, Morton I.
BharateeyaOO project (desktop localization)
big pharma vs. small biotech companies, IP issues for
Binary Difference Analysis tool
BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Daemon)
     DNS (Domain Name System) and
     resolver problems
"biobricks" (presynthesized DNA)
bioinformatic software and synthetic biology
Biological Innovation for Open Society initiative (BIOS)
biology, open source
     alternative routes to drug development
     future trends in
     risk of biological hacking
     synthetic biology
biotech boom
biotechnology
     commercial, beginnings of
     intellectual property and growing challenges
     modern, the rise of
     patents aggressively sought for
Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO)
bioweapon threats
BitKeeper
Blizzard and the bnetd project
blockbuster drugs
Blockstackers 2nd 3rd
blog entry about open source security
BluePoint (Chinese Linux distributor)
bnetd project (Blizzard)
Bok, Sissella
Bomis.com 2nd
bootstrapping product complements
Boston Consulting Group, surveys done by
"both source" business model
Boyer, Herbert
branching in version control systems
Brand, Stewart 2nd
Brazil
     developing software livre movement in
     Java-based tools used in
     livre vs. gratis (terms meaning free)
     market issues and software livre movement
     Microsoft vs. FOSS movement
Brent, Roger
Broadcast Flag rule (FCC) 2nd
Brooks, Frederick 2nd 3rd
browser wars
BSD License
Buchanan, J. M.
bug-tracking system for Mozilla
bugs
     in open source and proprietary software
     vs. security vulnerabilities
Bugzilla
Building 20 at MIT (a Low Road building)
The Bunker
Bureaucracy Bottleneck, roadblock to company growth
Burton Matrix 2nd
Burton, Craig 2nd 3rd
Burton, Michael
Bush, Vannevar
business and Freemacs
business and politics
business models
     ASP model
     "both source" model
     code-level service model
     dual-license model
     for Linux
         consequences of future directions
     for open source
         in China
     managed source model
     mixed source model
     professional open source model
     services model
business tutorial
byte range locks, setting up in POSIX