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Making The Case For Free Software
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| Jon âMaddogâ Hall, president of Linux International, a worldwide nonprofit
| that encourages the use of free, open source software, spent 16 years working
| at Maynard-based Digital Equipment Corp., which after becoming a technology
| pioneer, was eventually acquired by Compaq in 1998.
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| It was his experience at DEC that put Hall squarely on the side of open
| source advocates like those who fought for SiCortexâs source code.
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| âA huge amount of the intellectual property developed over the years (at DEC)
| never saw the light of day,â Hall said. âIf they had been open source
| projects, then that work and intellectual property would not have disappeared
| and could have been used in different things.â
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| Making software source code available without charge to anyone who wants it
| may seem to be counterintuitive in a capitalistic economy, but open source
| enthusiasts say that a lot of great programming code evaporates if a company
| goes out of business or chooses not to move ahead with a product.
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http://www.wbjournal.com/news44095.html
Depth of support is key when choosing software
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| Certainly open-source software has grown more popular, and as such,
| supportability has increased proportionately. We expect this trend to
| continue. In fact, many open-source platforms are supportable nowadays,
| including the "LAMP stack," which includes the Linux operating system, Apache
| Web server, MySQL database and PHP programming language. Some might say that
| the P stands for the Perl or Python programming languages, but PHP is by far
| the most popular and, not coincidentally, the most supportable of the three.
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http://www.starbulletin.com/business/20090802_Depth_of_support_is_key_when_choosing_software.html
Why Open Source Is Worth Your Time
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| Why use open source software?
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| The most obvious reason is that you can save a whole lot of money. Another
| great reason is that for almost anything you want to do on your computer,
| there is a great application out there. This can be as simple as Synergy, the
| mouse and keyboard sharing software I mentioned yesterday, to entire
| operating systems that can replace Windows altogether. Open source software
| also tends to be more flexible in what it will allow you to do.
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http://www.nillabyte.com/blog.php?b=161
Recent:
Open Source: Wide Open Spaces
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| The sun rises in the east, the earth revolves around the sun, and an open
| source solution arrives when the business it serves has become fat and lazy.
| At least that's how it used to go. That's what happened in operating systems
| when Linux was born. That's what happened in content management when Alfresco
| emerged as that industry's open source entrant.
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http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=104562
Open Source & Cloud Computing: Is There a Free Software Alternative?
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| Pau Garcia-Mila founded three start-ups in Spain and is currently at the
| eyeOS Project board. He founded eyeOS in 2005 at the early age of 17 and was
| the youngest member of the '08 Center for Entrepreneurial Learning student
| from the Judge Business School at Cambridge University in the UK.
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http://cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/941043/print
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