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Kindness Breeds More Kindness, Study Shows
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| Goodness spurs goodness, they found: A single
| act can influence dozens more.
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| In a game where selfishness made more sense
| than cooperation, acts of giving were âtripled
| over the course of the experiment by other
| subjects who are directly or indirectly
| influenced to contribute more,â wrote
| political scientist James Fowler of the
| University of California, San Diego, and
| medical sociologist Nicholas Christakis of
| Harvard University.
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http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/03/kindness-spreads/
Open source makes psychological sense
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| ACCORDING TO a recent study random acts of
| kindness have a very positive impact on humans
| and regularly spread this good feeling to
| others.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/blog-post/1595653/open-source-makes-psychological-sense
Can free software drive the fourth paradigm?
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| The biggest science story to hit the
| mainstream media in the last year was of
| course the big switch on at CERN. What made
| it such a great story for me was not just
| the sheer and audacious enormity of the
| enterprise or the humbling nobility of the
| colossal experiment but the story behind
| the story. That story was the absolutely
| central role of free software philosophy at
| the heart of everything CERN was (and is)
| doing. Despite the false start, CERNâs
| search for the Higgs Boson has got into its
| stride. The same cannot be said for the car
| crash that is climate science, which may
| have inflicted terminal damage on the
| reputation of science. I believe the
| rigorous application of free software
| methodology in conjunction with the Fourth
| Paradigm may save it.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/can_open_source_software_drive_fourth_paradigm
Recent:
The True Spirit of Open Source
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| News flash: it is these people who drive open source software. Those large,
| reliable open source projects with all of the sparkle and polish? They became
| that way because large groups of people found them useful enough that they
| decided to invest their time in making the project even better. But in all
| cases, for open source software to progress, people have to be willing to
| give up their time and energy for free and with no expectation of reward.
| Open source is driven by pure altruism.
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http://www.liveandcode.com/2009/08/12/the-true-spirit-of-open-source/
In Quest of Open Source Load- and Stress-Testing Tools
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| I heard from more than 30 people on every aspect of the subject, and as you
| might imagine, some of the comments hit the cutting room
| floor. Among them, alas, was the full-length response from Alice Kaerast: "I
| understand enough about security to feel comfortable that my code is written
| securely, and the beauty of open source means that there are many people
| actively testing and checking code, all of whom know about detecting
| vulnerabilities better than any software."
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http://www.itworld.com/open-source/74594/quest-open-source-load-and-stress-testing-tools
Father of microloans sees end to poverty
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| Computer programmer Tom Bostelmann had felt disconnected from philanthropy as
| a tech guy. Now he works as a consultant to the Grameen Technology Center,
| developing open-source banking systems software.
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/335705_yunus17.html
Related:
Altruism and open source
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| The story illustrates a point. That is, open source goals are often
| directed outward, not inward. It's not, I'm going to make money, but
| we're going to accomplish some larger goal.
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| Often the target of open source ambition is the customer. Open
| source projects drive out costs and bring savings, which multiply
| as customers learn more about their open source tools.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=795
Why Do Some Software Programmers Work for Free?
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| In the end, the results suggest that a potential monetary payoff down the
| line does motivate software developers to be more productive, but many
| developers are still attracted to the movement for things besides pecuniary
| rewards. They just don't seem to work as hard.
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http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/odd-numbers/2007/08/31/why-do-some-software-programmers-work-for-free
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