Openness to conflicting ideas urged
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| A refusal to compromise or to accept mediocrity is a sign of an integrative
| thinker and leader. This also accounts for the success of Young, the
| billionaire entrepreneur who turned a tiny company called Red Hat into the
| leading purveyor of open-source Linux software.
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| Young succeeded, where others said it was not possible, by improving product,
| service and consulting quality so much that large organizations decided it
| was worth entrusting their information technology operations to Linux
| freeware instead of to "safe" but more expensive suppliers such as Microsoft
| and Oracle.
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http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-books10feb10,1,3285899.story?ctrack=2&cset=true
Software Philosophy: Consider the (Open) Source
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| The divide between the two camps can make it difficult to talk about software
| developed under the new philosophies as a whole. Often projects have
| developers firmly entrenched in both camps. A new term was coined to unify
| them. Free / Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) makes no distinction about
| the motivation of its developers, but tries to describe the combined efforts
| of all.
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http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/585947/software_philosophy_consider_the_open.html
Related:
Free Software's True Believer
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| Richard Stallman doesn't think it's okay to use proprietary software to
| make free software popular.
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http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=18757&hed=Q%26amp%3BA%3A+Richard+Stallman
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