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Open Source Alternatives for X Professional Software
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| The Open Source movement has always been
| present. Whether proprietary software seems
| to be gaining ground or not, open source
| has always been a very enticing
| alternative. The problem has been, how do
| people know whether an open source
| alternative exists or not? Hereâs two
| websites that hope to change that.
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| If a user is sick and tired of some of the
| flaws of, say, Internet Explorer and they
| want to turn to an Open Source solution,
| the easy goto browser for surfing is
| FireFox hands down. In fact, FireFox does
| have what very few open source solutions
| have â a household name that most know
| about. Chances are, someone who knows
| someone who knows someone at the very least
| either knows or uses the famed browser.
| What about alternatives to, say, AutoCAD or
| Adobe Illustrator? That might be a bit more
| difficult to find.
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http://www.zeropaid.com/news/87398/open-source-alternatives-for-x-professional-software/
Open source commemorative challenge coin minted
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| Need something unique for the open source
| Linux-loving GNU-spouting Free Software
| Foundation member in your life? ThinkGeek
| has the answer in the form of commemorative
| open source challenge coins. They will
| contribute to the open source cause and
| might even get you a free drink.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/30059/1141/
The Bizarre Cathedral - 62
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/bizarre_cathedral_62
Recent:
About Open Source Value Creation and Consumption
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| The relationship between open source
| communities and vendors keeps being a topic of
| debate these days. Simon Phipps at the South
| Tyrol Free Software Conference gave a talk
| about his âsoftware freedom scorecardâ, a
| method to indicate the approach vendors take
| to promote software freedom as part of their
| business strategies.
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http://robertogaloppini.net/2009/11/19/about-open-source-value-creation-and-consumption/
RMS and His Magic Bread
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| Imagine that you are in a world where people are starving. Imagine you have
| some bread, and you were confronted with starving people: most would feel a
| compulsion to share that bread. But imagine now that you had RMS's special
| kind of bread that could be eaten once or a million times: how much greater
| would the duty to share that bread with the hungry be? And how much more
| despicable would the person who refused to share that bread be?
|
| Translate this now to the realm of ideas. We are surrounded by people hungry
| for knowledge, and we do possess that magic bread - digital copies of
| knowledge that can be shared infinitely without diminishing it. Do we not
| have a similar moral duty to share that magic bread of digital knowledge with
| all those that hunger for it?
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/05/rms-and-his-magic-bread.html
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