And just as Twitter consolidated the Track threat by purchasing Summize, we may see overtures in either direction by Friendfeed and Twitter, by Microsoft, Google, and Cisco, or open source patrons such as Oracle, IBM, and even Sun in the case of Identi.ca or an XMPP competitor.
"I have a manuscript called 'Decoding the American Mind,"' he said, which will take his findings and analysis beyond his corporate patrons to the source -- American readers.
Milford punctuates the narrative with frequent asides in the form of an ongoing dialogue — a tug-of-war — with her patron and primary source, Norma, the poet's vestal and the biographer's Nemesis, who dropped cryptic hints about deeper mysteries that remained unsolved and let slip that she had destroyed certain overly revealing or unseemly materials, including pornographic photographs.
At worst you will improve your company's reputation as a patron of open source (a strategy that has served IBM extremely well over the years).
This is a source of continual irritation to other patrons who feel they are entitled to hear whatever they have paid for.
The top jumps trainer, Paul Nicholls, is fond of invoking his patron as an inspiration and source of advice, but only in terms of the common challenges they face as leaders in their field.
Linus Torvalds, patron saint of the "open source" software movement, is still hot, this time because of his day job as a programmer for Transmeta's Crusoe chip for wireless computing.
Medieval scribes recognized that copying error has a random or chaotic element, and even invented a counterpart to Maxwell's Demon as its source: Tutivillus, whom they adopted as their patron demon [12].
The remaining funding come from a variety of private sources including foundations, corporations and thousands of individual patrons.
Foucault viewed the painting without regard to the subject matter, nor to the artist's biography, technical ability, sources and influences, social context, or relationship with his patrons.
BART relies on unused ticket values, particularly of patrons discarding low-value cards, as an additional source of revenue, estimated by some to be as high as $9.9 million.
