Second Annual Winner of $10,000 Pizzigati Prize Announced by Tides Foundation
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| Barry Warsaw is being recognized for his work as the lead developer of GNU
| Mailman, the open source application that hundreds of nonprofits around the
| world are now using to manage electronic mail discussions and e-newsletter
| lists.
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http://www.foxbusiness.com/article/second-annual-winner-10000-pizzigati-prize-announced-tides-foundation_460339_1.html
*Very* widely-deployed software. Is anyone paying for mailing lists software?
Or is it a commodity?
Setting software free: Eben Moglen and digital age morality
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| Moglen goes on to say: “every piece of useful or beautiful information can be
| distributed to everybody at the same cost that it can be distributed to
| anybody. For the first time in human history, we face an economy in which the
| most important goods have zero marginal cost” (Moglen 2003). Quite true. But
| miraculous as a zero marginal cost may be, Moglen neglects to tackle the
| issue of the cost of the first copy. This was true long before the Internet.
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http://thinkubator.ccsp.sfu.ca/SettingSoftwareFreeEbenMoglenAndDigitalAgeMorality
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Open source entering the mobile computing space
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| To give developers incentives, Funambol pays developers $500 to $3,000 to
| work on projects, such as a Google Android client for Funambol or a Google
| Gmail connector. The company also pays $25 to persons to test their phone to
| see if Funambol works on it.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;1359667846;fp;2;fpid;1
[Free] Software Town
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| "Software prices will eventually fall to zero. The open-source software
| movement has already started that commoditization." That pronouncement
| came last week from MIT professor Michael A. Cusumano at a one-day
| Silicon Valley conference called "The New Software Industry."
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=software&articleId=291485&taxonomyId=18&intsrc=kc_feat
http://tinyurl.com/33la3k
Sun: Pay open-source developers
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| Sun is proposing that open-source developers be paid for
| the revenue-generating technology that they have made
| available for free.
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/05/07/sunpay-opensource_1.html
Debian Linux project group to pay developers
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| A group of senior developers from the Debian GNU/Linux project have decided
| to raise funds to pay volunteers who work on the project in order that
| releases can be made more frequently.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/5683/53/
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