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[News] Free Software Makes Perfect Business Sense, Drives Social and Technical Innovation

  • Subject: [News] Free Software Makes Perfect Business Sense, Drives Social and Technical Innovation
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 10:08:58 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
So, why, why do people and company develop free software?

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| Take Apache, for example. If your company runs Apache on its servers, you, of 
| course, need it to work right. Now, if it doesn’t and you find a bug, you can 
| report the bug to the Apache developers. However, the bug might be one that 
| will only affect a small minority of users; this might mean that it will have 
| a very low priority for the developers. If it's important enough to you, you 
| might decide to try and fix it yourself or, perhaps, pay somebody else to fix 
| it.      
| 
| If you send your patch back to the Apache developers, you will know that the 
| bug will be fixed in every new release of Apache, so you won't have to keep 
| fixing it every time you upgrade to a new version. Not only that, but 
| everybody else who uses Apache will benefit too. Your patch will be checked 
| over by amazing developers, improved, discussed and improved some more.    
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/editorial_20

Free Software as Social Innovation

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| I own up, I've been using KDE for ever with no plans on changing.  One techie 
| talked to me about Adrian de Groot's KDE 4 presentation the previous night, 
| promplty confessing to having "a few problems" with KDE and wasn't convinced 
| that using C++ was a wise decision.   Different approaches, same philosophy, 
| giving us the four freedoms, surely we could avoid even hinting about 
| these "difficulties" in such fora?       
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http://www.fsfe.org/news/fsasi

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