"Should" Software Be Free?
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| One of the ways that the Free Software Movement is unique is their success!
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| Linux is putting a serious scare into Microsoft these days. Apache,
| the web server partner of Linux, is doing more than that. They're
| winning the race world wide if you measure simply by the number of
| installations. (http://news.netcraft.com/) And there are serious
| contenders in other major categories: Mono, Firefox, PHP, and so forth.
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| This is virtually unprecedented in any other area of human activity.
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http://visualbasic.about.com/b/a/256831.htm
'Free' comes at a cost
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| Firstly, there is still a lot of confusion over the term OSS. It is
| called "Open Source" not because it is free but because the user can
| look at the source code and is free to make any changes he likes
| and distribute it under certain terms.
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http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2007/4/22/lifefocus/17481771&sec=lifefocus
http://tinyurl.com/yqpdhq
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