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Links 1 through 10 of 28 by Dave Neary tagged free

Interesting article showing savings you can make by using open components in your proprietary software. Short story: lots.

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It pains me to see Microsoft always dragged out as the main actor behind the anti-Open Source lobby - other companies clearly have more to lose from free software adoption than MS. Anyway - since I recommend that people use free software where possible, I guess that makes me a pirate too.

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Havoc Pennington's advice to people who want to start developing free software. I don't agree with everything, but my favourite pieces of advice are "No-one is in charge", "Be a self-starter" and "Use the mailing lists".

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Useful tool to convert from Garmin TrackCenterXML format to other formats. Combined with gant makes my ForeRunner405 useful albeit very geeky.

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Article arguing what I have previously said: companies will provide services, and will get value from participating in communities. Companies that own free software projects, but work to control the development of the project, are essentially the same thing as proprietary software companies. "I believe that in the long term the market equilibrium will be based on a set of service-based companies (providing high specialization) and development consortia (providing core economies of scale). "

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Amazing tool - allows me to see how a site renders in browsers I don't have installed on my system (most importantly, IE 5.5 and IE 6). I just learned last week that on IE <= 6 my professional site looks 'orrible.

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"Freedom to Leave" is what you get from using easily swappable components, which implement recognised standard protocols and file formats. Simon wrote this a while back, but it remains relevant now.

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A Chris Anderson article on three ways how to make "free" pay

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John Bintz and MenTaLGuY showing how to make comics with Inkscape and the GIMP at LGM 2007 in Montreal

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