Links 1 through 10 of 96 by Dave Neary tagged freesoftware
http://www.h-online.com/open/features/LibreOffice-A-fresh-page-for-OpenOffi...
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Significantly, Chris DiBona, Open Source Programs Manager at Google, notes that: "Having a level playing field for all contributors is fundamental in creating a broad and active community around an open source software project." (ahem) Android
http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Textbook_Release_0.8
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Just discovered teachingopensource.org - looks promising! Wondering whether author names on chapters implies that that's the basic unit, or whether smaller contributions might also be welcome.
http://www.forentrepreneurs.com/sales-marketing-machine/jboss-example/
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Great link (via Stephen Walli) about lead generation for free software
http://not403.blogspot.com/2010/03/example-of-awesomeness-of-open-source.ht...
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I have in the past written about the freedom to fork being the ultimate safety check against one company's hedgemony in a free software project, and I'm happy to see, in the wake of the Oracle-Sun takeover, that I've got another data point supporting that.
http://devin.reams.me/the-free-software-problem/
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"Now, what if a WordPress plugin developer releases their feature to the world for free. Do they have to follow-up with every email question? How could one person be expected donate both their time in the form of a plugin and in the form of support to thousands of individuals? The latter does not scale and, more importantly, your usage did not contribute to any economic model I can perceive. Open source software is largely reputation based. Yet somehow people expect, nay, demand customer satisfaction. I see it every day."
http://www.advogato.org/article/22.html
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More advice to would-be hackers, from Raph Levien. Well worth the read. Highlight: "Chase the dream, not the competition"
http://www106.pair.com/rhp/hacking.html
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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".
http://users.jyu.fi/~koskinen/smcosts.htm
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A study of maintenance costs - useful data indeed for the cost of maintaining out-of-tree forks of free software projects.
I think I'm going to have to go to this... FOSS in academia conference, one hour drive from Lyon. Interesting agenda and line-up
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DimDim is a free & open source webinar product and SaaS platform. It is both downloadable or usable hosted (free webinars for up to 20 participants). Would be great to see GNOME webinars using this.
