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Why Tech Needs to Keep an Eye on Free
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| He said that the free economy was made possible by the industrial revolution
| and dates back to Jello. Anderson pitched his latest book, called "Free: The
| Future of a Radical Price," at Wired magazine's Disruptive by Design
| conference. Anderson is best known for his Long Tail marketing thesis. "Free"
| details the changes Anderson expects to see in the business models of the
| future.
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| He said that when the Genesee Pure Food Company was preparing to launch its
| new gelatin product, it needed to find a way to get customers to ask for it
| by name at the general store. One idea was to sell it door-to-door but that
| required licenses. Free products, however, did not require licenses so the
| Genesee Pure Food Company made a Jello recipe book, printed 5 million copies,
| hired the best artists, and gave it away for free.
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http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3825166
World's Biggest Open-Source Event Announced
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| Open World Forum and Open Source Think Tank to bring together key players
| from the world of Free, Libre and Open Source Software in Paris, September
| 28th-2nd October 2009.
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| Developer communities, business and policy-makers to attend event to ensure
| open software plays an active role in the digital recovery.
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http://business.newsfactor.com/news/World-s-Biggest-Open-Source-Event/story.xhtml?story_id=033000KRX2HC
Recent:
Linux s'il vous plaît: French Gendarmie say oui to Ubuntu
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| The Gendarmie Nationale – France’s national police force – has been slowly
| introducing open source software to its 105,000+ policemen since 2005. In
| 2008 the decision was made to use only Ubuntu for all new workstations. A
| year on shows this has been a great success with happy users, a better
| network and cost savings of over seven million euro per year.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/23763/1143/
French Lawmakers Hope to Inspire Linux Revolution
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| If the French National Assembly gets its way, the open-source Linux operating
| system will take over the governments of Europe, seizing on a weak economy to
| displace Windows.
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| About 18 months ago, the Assembly shifted from running Windows on the 1,100
| computers of its members and their assistants to running a version of Linux
| called Ubuntu. (I profiled the rise of Ubuntu in a recent article.) According
| to Rudy Salles, vice president of the assembly, the decision to abandon
| Microsoft’s Windows software was both an economic and political gesture.
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| The French Parliament should save about 500,000 euros over the next five
| years, thanks to the low price of Ubuntu –- free –- and have lower management
| costs. Linux tends to have fewer security issues than Windows, for example.
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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/21/french-lawmakers-hope-to-inspire-linux-revolution/
French government using Drupal
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| The French Ministry for Health, Youth and Sport launched a Drupal-based
| information portal for French youth: http://www.jeunes.gouv.fr. Building on
| the rapid adoption of Drupal by non-profit and advocacy groups, Drupal's use
| by governments just keeps increasing!
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http://buytaert.net/french-government-using-drupal
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