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Tech students out to give software firms run for money
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| They are the new whiz kids on the block and
| offer a âbetter and more affordableâ version
| of popular software. Meet the team of Open
| Source Software, a community initiative
| started by a group of engineering students
| who were in the city to promote their
| programme during a one-day camp held at
| Chitkara Business School today.
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http://www.indianexpress.com/news/tech-students-out-to-give-software-firms-run-for-money/603893/
The Guard That Costs Nothing
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| FOSS is not just about cost, it is also
| about freedom. Your freedom to modify the
| software to your needs. Most big businesses
| that I know of are deploying or have
| deployed open source software not only for
| security but for mission-critical
| applications as well. The mascot of the open
| source world--the Linux operating system, is
| relatively more secure from threats such as
| viruses and can be deployed for free. Linux
| distributions such as Fedora, Ubuntu,
| openSUSE, etc, cost nothing and provide
| greater security.
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http://www.efytimes.com/e1/creativenews.asp?edid=43514
Crafting the right code
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| The precise reason that Software
| craftsmanship lays its emphasis more on the
| individual coding abilities of the
| professional, devoid of financial concerns
| like direct remuneration, ability of the
| code to translate into financial gain â
| short term or otherwise â and the overall
| âhealthâ of a software code, has seen its
| popularity among Open Source enthusiasts.
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http://www.ciol.com/Developer/Open-Source/News-Reports/Crafting-the-right-code/134700/0/
Recent:
Meet on open source software from April 19
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| The Department of Computer Science and
| Engineering of Federal Institute of Science
| and Technology (FISAT) will organise
| ICEFOSS- 10, a conference for enthusiasts
| of free and open source software, from
| April 19 to 21.
|
| ICEFOSS is a platform for the promotion of
| Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). It
| will feature various programmes, including
| lectures on the philosophical and technical
| aspects of free software, workshops and
| open discussions.
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http://expressbuzz.com/cities/kochi/meet-on-open-source-software-from-april-19/164354.html
Use value and free software
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| Not everyone was happy with that, and we
| got rebels such as the heroes of the Free
| Software Foundation. Iâm not going to
| preach to the choir and repeat the rise and
| success of free software, but Iâm going to
| say that the rebellion was all about a
| world-class hacker such as Richard Stallman
| being unable to fix the driver software for
| his brand new Xerox printer because it was
| proprietary. The use value was greatly
| diminished.
|
| Free software is all about making software
| useful again. Software is only useful when
| you can do what your needs are, not someone
| elseâs. No software vendor is ingenious
| enough to predict what you might want to
| do. Free software communities are: they
| just do what you tell them to do. Weâre
| talking usefulness, use values again.
|
| So now that we have philosophically and
| economically fixed everything with the free
| software ideology and open source
| development models, and we have wonderful
| systems like Linux-based GNU systems and
| all the awesome apps that run on them,
| weâre home free, right? Iâm not sure.
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http://www.siltala.net/2010/04/11/use-values-and-free-softwar/
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