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.
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| 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.
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| [...]
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| "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.
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