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How Open Source Can Beat the Status Quo
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| Open source cannot change the status quo on its own, and of itself. This has
| become entirely clear now, after 10 years of hype leading to effectively the
| exact same situation as when we started. No, open source needs to be combined
| with something else, and that's usually a technology. That technology can be
| the Web, in the case of Mozilla, or a hardware platform, in the case of the
| recent netbook revolution.
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| Below I look at some of the biggest challenges to the current computing
| status quo. In each and every case, open source is playing a part. It's only
| now, around ten years after the open source revolution was supposed to have
| begun, that we're actually seeing things really begin to happen.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/166551/how_open_source_can_beat_the_status_quo.html
IFRA using Drupal
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| IFRA, the world's leading association for newspaper and media publishing,
| knows how to set an example: they are switching their websites to Drupal.
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http://buytaert.net/ifra-using-drupal
Recent:
A Reminder That Asstroturfing Exists
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| Fresh off the presses, another asstroturfing site brags about how they game
| social bookmarking like it was Three-Card Monte. The story got posted on
| Reddit so Redditors can laugh and point at Digg, as if the exact same thing
| never happens on Reddit.
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| Of all the spam and advertising fraud out there, it is perhaps asstroturfing
| that is the meanest. Asstrturfers undermine the social web. The story you see
| that's voted up to the front page, even though it's a troll? People were paid
| to vote that up. Your social-network-site "friend" who recommends spams and
| scams to you non-stop? He's paid to pretend to be your friend. The comments
| that flood a story, flaming about one side of the issue, insulting and
| modding down everybody who objects, and make it sound like it's the
| world-against-you? They're paid actors. The troll who harassed you in a
| thread for numerous replies until you gave up in frustration? Paid to do
| that.
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http://penguinpetes.com/b2evo/index.php?title=a_reminder_that_asstroturfing_exists&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
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