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What Google knew; Limbaugh eats dirt; Networks take over everything; Hard world of cloud computing; Digitized underground; Robert Knight dies

The sad truth is that open source software — which underpins vast swathes of the net — has a serious sustainability problem. Money doesn’t necessarily buy good code, but it pays for software audits and face-to-face meetings, and it can free up open-source coders from their day jobs.