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...open-source collaboration model from coding to its next logical step: interface design. While we’ll dive deep into the practical difference between these two professional fields, the article might also serve as a note of caution to think before rushing to declare the rise of “open-source architecture,” “open-source university,” “......

...Open Source Software When the open source community use the word free they mean freedom; the freedom to use software in any way that you want, the freedom to alter it and the freedom to give it away. Audio courtesy of Christian Einfeldt and crew of the Digital Tipping Point project, under a http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/. Richard Stallman must be quoted...

...open source proposal. Andrew - have you thought through the consequences of this innocuous looking sentence: "We will require that all publicly funded software and hardware is released under an Open Source licence." Most IT projects use proprietary software, that is then tweaked for purpose. That will pretty much stop any IT company working on a public sector project....

...open source movement and increased competition means that it’s now possible to equip your computer with software for free. Before we look at the goodies available, a word of caution: some of this free software might not offer all the functions of the commercial equivalent. However, it’s free, so let’s not gripe. A number of packages are given away to generate...