BBC World Service: In this edition Peter Day explores a computer revolution.
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| Software is the bundle of complex algorithms that makes your computer tick.
| In the past 20 years, some of the very richest people in the world have
| made their money out of software whose secrets they protected with patents
| and guarded with lawsuits. But now here comes a wave of so called open
| source software, with no secrets, open to anyone to use and modify, the
| product of thousands of brains working together. It?s a powerful new way of
| doing computing, and there?s a lot of money to be made out of it.
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| From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
| Subject: BBC "Digital Planet" Podcast: MS Home Server "reinvented the
| wheel"
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| BBC Digital Planet Podcast:
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| http://tinyurl.com/yxkxhe (downloads.bbc.co.uk) [mp3]
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| Covers ...
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| Open Source Radio Playout (Radio Station) software:
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| http://www.campware.org/en/camp/campcaster_news/
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| Bill Thompson: "This is something which really meets a very
| important need, and does it in a very well defined way."
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