Difference between revisions of "Talk:Free and open-source software"
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Revision as of 17:44, 15 January 2007
Panel on why people contribute - perhaps shared with collaborative design section
The amazing complexity of some these projects
Wikimedia commons
Books
Creative commons etc.
Paragraph largely made redundant by the free riders section:
The fact that thousands of other people are able to make use of the software having put in no effort themselves and haven't paid any money simply isn't an issue - after all it effectively costs nothing to replicate the software and the open-source developers are only too happy that it is proving useful to a wider audience. It is truly maximizing it's utility.
