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Talk: Morality and Pragmatism in Free Software and Open Source

By Robin Smidsrød on Oct 3, 2009 | In Software, Perl, Education | Send feedback »

I just wanted to inform you about a talk I'll be making on my local college about the differences in philosophy of the Free Software movement and the Open Source movement.

Feedback about content, accuracy etc. most wanted.

The talk is mostly about summarizing the content of Dave Yeats writings in the book The Handbook of Research on Open Source Software: Technological, Economic, and Social Perspectives (Chapter 3).

Thanks to the Dave Rolsky, Ricardo Signes, Florian Ragwitz and others in #moose@irc.perl.org for valuable input on the subject matter.

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