The Rank Organisation Davis cut staff, reduced budgets and concentrated film production at Pinewood. Other studio facilities (in Islington) were closed, sold (Lime Grove Studios) or leased (Denham). The Rank Organisation closed Independent Producers Ltd. The policies of Davis alienated many in the industry, in particular they led film director David Lean, responsible for some of Rank's most critically and financially successful films, to look elsewhere for backing. In 1949, the company bought the Bush Radio manufacturing facility and began to diversify its interests. In the early 1960s Rank took over Murphy Radio to form the Rank Bush Murphy Group (which was eventually
Open source in Kosovo Source Software Kosova (FLOSSK) FLOSS Kosova is a non-governmental organization which was established in March 2009 that promotes free and open-source software. This initiative was undertaken by James Michael DuPont in association with volunteers from Kosovo. The first results of this organization have been seen in August of that year in the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, where was held the first conference of this organization. The conference became a tradition and was held every year. The conference, which resulted in being the biggest conference in the region, was called “Software Freedom Kosova 2009”, which promoted free and open-source