Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> UK students offered cash for open source software
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> | British university students are being offered cash incentives to
> | write open source software - and the first beneficiary is a Python
> | programmer from Swansea.
> |
> | The UK Free Software Network (UKFSN), a small Hertfordshire-based
> | internet service provider, has announced it will use its profits
> | to form a fund benefitting students developing software that can
> | be modified by its end users.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | "There's a lot of work to be done," Price, a former president of
> | the university's computer society, told Ping Wales. "A constraint
> | I have to follow is the GNU Free Software Definition.
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> http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2007/01/11/UKFSN-Price.html
>
> Even Manchester University does this. I was paid to develop GPL'ed
> software.
I think this method should be adopted by schools as well.
They should pay bounties for open source developers
to register and improve software to exacting requirements,
and since the software is open source, it can be continually
developed through peer review by other schools and open source
developers at a lower cost than any close source methods.
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