Difference between revisions of "Talk:Free and open-source software"

Revision as of 19:23, 26 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.

Other software to list:

• Open source radio: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6241923.stm
• http://www.jokosher.org/
• koffice
• Scribus
• Wiki and content management software
• POVRay