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.
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| 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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