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[News] Free Means Creativity, Revenue

Free Culture Intro

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| This movement for a free culture, where people collaborate to create great 
| works such as Wikipedia, is much wider than Wikipedia alone. You can see it 
| embodied in the One Laptop Per Child initiative; in the Public Library of 
| Science; in great archives of music such as Jamendo, and innovative record 
| labels like Magnatune; and in projects such as the Internet Archive.    
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http://blog.questionsplease.org/2007/11/18/free-culture-intro/

A bit less 'free' (open source), but nonetheless:

Frost & Sullivan Acknowledges Sangomas Customer and Sales Strategy-based Growth
in the Enterprise Voice Communication Market

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| Sangoma has amply demonstrated an ability to leverage unique opportunities 
| such as open-source telephony in a mature, yet rapidly evolving market and 
| translate it to accelerated revenue growth.   
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http://news.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/10381/406017.html


Related:

Radiohead find there's gold at the end of In Rainbows

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| A few weeks ago, the band Radiohead made waves by making their new album In 
| Rainbows available online as a free download. But people could also decide 
| how much they wanted to pay for it.   
| 
| [...]
| 
| In the programming field, the Linux operating system is an obvious example. 
| In the arena of user-generated content, Wikipedia is another. 
| 
| But while both are examples of open-source collaboration, they are in fact 
| very different. Linux harnesses the collective intelligence of a smallish 
| band of talented programmers, while Wikipedia engages the energy and 
| knowledge of hundreds of thousands of contributors.   
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/nov/18/digitalmedia.netmusic?gusrc=rss&feed=media


Free Radiohead music pirated

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| Big Champagne, a Los-Angeles-based company that tracks illegal downloading on 
| the Internet said that while 1.2 million people legitimately downloaded the 
| album online, 500,000 picked it up from torrent sites.  
| 
| [....]
| 
| It has also had more copies sold. Radiohead's previous album sold only 
| 300,000 copies in the first week.  
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/10/18/free-radiohead-music-pirated


Radiohead album bets on fast release, open pricing

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| The release of popular rock group Radiohead's new album next week is the 
| latest wake-up call for a music industry still struggling to deal with the 
| advent of digital music, experts say.  
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http://www.news.com/Radiohead-album-bets-on-fast-release%2C-open-pricing/2100-1025_3-6212107.html?tag=nefd.top

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