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Why FLOSS?

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Authour: Tony Seles

Date: November 8, 2003

This article provides resources about motivation to use FLOSS.

Newbie clue: It's not about the Apps, the IDE, the code, and the language. It doesn't matter about the OS. It's about the business knowledge. If you spend a year writing the killer application, and you use another companies libraries to implement your solution, you are at that companies mercy. Write it from scratch when you can. --http://ask.slashdot.org/~NullProg/

1. http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html

2. http://www.flora.ca/russell/drafts/perc200311.html

3. http://www.kmfms.com/whatsbad.html

4. http://www.gothpunk.com/articles/open-source-punks.html

5. http://www.oclug.on.ca/principles.php

6. "For users, part of the promise of open systems is in investment protection provided by the ability to adapt and evolve systems and solutions as needs and technologies change." (Quote from research done by Tony, from http://www.cplire.ru/rus/casr/os/3_12/1/1.htm . Technical Excellence is the motivation behind the "Open Source" sub-culture.)

7. Moral and Ethical reasons for guaranteeing software without cost to the public. (Politics and social ethics is the motivation behind the "Free Software" sub-culture.)

8. The motivation behind the "FLOSS" sub-culture (is explained [ here | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free/Libre_Open_Source_Software ]).