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A Ruritania of the Mind
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| This is the beginning of the participatory society. The Free Software/Open
| Source movement understands this very well. I contribute to this society by
| writing Samba code, helping people with problems on the Internet with Samba,
| and communicating freely with the community of people who have coalesced
| around this code. Many other programmers make a living and communicate in the
| same way. But this movement doesn't stop with technologists or Free Software
| programmers. I used to love going to the Opera. With a small child I don't
| get to go anymore, but I'd love to see more amateur productions. Video your
| amateur production and upload it. I'll watch! Some will end up being worth
| paying for and maybe you'll hit the bigtime. Most of it won't and just you
| and your friends will get to enjoy it. But you'll never know unless you
| upload and share.
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http://www.tuxdeluxe.org/node/297
It's taking over.
USPS goes open-source with tracking system
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| If you’ve gone to USPS.com to track and confirm delivery of a letter or
| package, you’ve used the U.S. Postal Service’s Product Tracking System (PTS)
| and probably not known it. And you might not have noticed either when USPS
| moved the system to open source.
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http://gcn.com/articles/2009/07/13/update2-usps-open-source-product-tracking-system.aspx
Earlier:
U.S. Postal Service Gives Stamp of Approval To FOSS
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| The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has switched 1,300 of the servers that manage
| its package tracking system to a Linux environment. The move has taken the
| better part of a year since all the original system code was written in Cobol
| and had to be converted for Linux -- a less expensive option than rewriting
| it altogether.
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http://ostatic.com/blog/u-s-postal-service-gives-stamp-of-approval-to-foss
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