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[News] The Reason Why Linux is the Future of the WWW

The mash-up future of the web

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| The way we use the web is changing and the future lies in mixing,
| mash-ups and pipes, says columnist Bill Thompson. 
| 
| [...]
| 
| Naming it Pipes is a very shrewd move, because it brings to mind the
| simple tools-based philosophy that underpins the Unix operating
| system on which Linux is based.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6375525.stm

There is also the element of openness or sharing. No single vendor can
monopolise things.

Mapping the world, one street at a time

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| The resulting map, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike
| 2.0 licence, relies on volunteers to either hit the streets with their
| GPS or help out with correctly naming the streets once they're
| captured. Currently 5 000 contributors are actively freeing map
| data from corporate and government clutches, with folks like Grant
| Slater -a South African living in London - encouraging more to hel
| out.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1368

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