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Free Software economics for Indigenous Nations
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| Free software underpins not just the technological foundations of the global
| Internet, but also the financial success of even large public corporations.
| Examples of this include IBM, who claims to make over $1 billion in revenue
| annually through free software, and RedHat (rhat), which is a publicly traded
| company that develops and sells free software for enterprise uses. But while
| free software scales even to sustain very large businesses, it also enables
| individuals and much smaller and entirely autonomous entities to successfully
| economically participate, and often with very minimal startup costs.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/free_software_economics_indigenous_nations
Murphy's Law: Open-Source Should Go Unrewarded
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| Why do open-source programs win awards? Or, rather, what is it about
| open-source that makes us so prone to dishing out accolades--as if the very
| nature of a program being open-source somehow makes it indistinguishable from
| any other common application you can use.
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| It almost sounds like common sense. When throwing awards into the open-source
| community like bread to a flock of ducks, don't just give a single duck all
| the bread. Stop throwing up generic awards like "Best Open-Source Instant
| Messenger," because that means little compared to the ways a program has
| succeeded in the critical areas that make open-source unique. And, seriously,
| let's save the accolades for groups or companies that embrace the "open" part
| of the phrase instead of those that find clever workarounds to sell more
| paid-for versions of the programs. Maybe that can be an award in itself: Best
| Licensing Workaround.
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http://www.maximumpc.com/article/columns/murphys_law_opensource_should_go_unrewarded
It should be about ethics, not profit.
Recent:
Human Rights Arts and Film Festival (HRAFF) Profile
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| The Human Rights Arts and Film Festival (HRAFF) will be taking place across
| Australia next month, showcasing engaging content from around the world that
| will encourage people to create positive change together.
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http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/sjlobo/news/human-rights-and-film-festival-hraff-profile/view
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