oddtag's posterous http://oddtag.posterous.com Most recent posts at oddtag's posterous posterous.com Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:58:32 -0800 The future is open source everything http://oddtag.posterous.com/the-future-is-open-source-everything http://oddtag.posterous.com/the-future-is-open-source-everything txt: Open Source Open World - www.focus.com
Open source is a concept of free sharing of technical information that has been around for much longer than most of us would imagine. When we think of open source today, we usually think of software. As wonderful and widely used as open source software is, according to Linus Torvalds, "the future is open source everything." From foods and beverages to scientific and health research studies and advanced technological innovations, the world has turned to open source.
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Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:01:45 -0700 Free as in freedom http://oddtag.posterous.com/free-as-in-freedom http://oddtag.posterous.com/free-as-in-freedom links: - Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards - Hall of Fame - Karl Fogel: I usually work on Free things - My name is Chris Messina, I'm an advocate for the Open Web txt: Thomas Jefferson - letter to Isaac MacPherson - 1813
That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation.
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Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:02:20 -0700 Freeconomics: free changes everything? http://oddtag.posterous.com/freeconomics-free-changes-everything http://oddtag.posterous.com/freeconomics-free-changes-everything txt: Open Source Textbooks Challenge a Paradigm - wired.com
But he's not concerned about viability or walking into a "freeconomics" black hole. "Our premise is that there will of course be some students who spend nothing, they just consume the free book online, but we believe students are consumers and they will pay for convenience if the price is right," [Flat World Knowledge] says.
links: - Flat World Knowledge - www.flatworldknowledge.com - Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business - wired.com - The Rise of "Freeconomics" - www.thelongtail.com - Beware of Freeconomics - www.readwriteweb.com [blip.tv ?posts_id=776653&dest=-1]

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