HP considers open-source services

Hewlett-Packard is considering selling services designed to ease customer participation in the open-source programming community, the company's new open-source boss said. "Across HP, there are thousands of people who contribute to open source. We have a number of processes and tools we've developed to allow different folks in HP to interact with the open-source community that protects our intellectual property and is done in a community-friendly way," said Christine Martino, who became vice president of HP's Open Source and Linux Organization in November...