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Making Money by Giving Stuff Away
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| First, free software appeared among the
| hacker community, where price was
| irrelevant, since the culture was largely
| one of sharing. From there, it seeped into
| companies, usually unbeknownst to
| management, which only found out about the
| fact later. By that time, the open source
| applications â notably GNU/Linux, Samba and
| Apache - had not only proved their
| technical quality, they had shown that
| something that cost nothing could, indeed,
| be worth much more than its nominal price
| tag.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2711&blogid=14
A little know but very powerful tool for homeschooling: Free Software
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| Stop: How did you discover Free Software?
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| Dean: I stumbled across Free Software programs
| for typing, geography, hangman (spelling) and
| crossword and soon realized that I could
| actually make educating my son fun using Free
| Software that was primarily Linux driven.
|
| Stop:Did you have to learn programming to use
| this software?
|
| Dean: No, I am not a software developer. I am
| a "post-frustrated Microsoft user" that did
| the math and figured the amount of time I
| spent trying to fix things that could not be
| fixed in Windows would have been spent wiser
| learning a better operating system (Linux
| Ubuntu in my case, but there is also a
| version, Edubuntu,, already preconfigured for
| school usage). I am happy enough that I want
| to try to convince other homeschoolers in my
| area to follow my path.
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http://stop.zona-m.net/node/68
Recent:
What Should We Teach New Software Developers? Why?
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| Computer science must be at the center of
| software systems development. If it is not,
| we must rely on individual experience and
| rules of thumb, ending up with less capable,
| less reliable systems, developed and
| maintained at unnecessarily high cost. We
| need changes in education to allow for
| improvements of industrial practice.
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http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/1/55760-what-should-we-teach-new-software-developers-why/fulltext
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