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Introduction
Principles
Geopolitics of Software Industry
History
"Sociology" of the movement
Who's participating
How is libre software developped
Free Software movement
+Open Source movement
Legal considerations
Choosing Libre/OpenSource software
Why address this question in classes at INT
Miscelleanous
Appendices
  

Open Source movement

A more market-oriented pragmatic approach which was created to be more appealing to businesses:

  • Technical benefits

  • Costs

Open Source movement :

  • Open Source Initiative (http://www.opensource.org)

  • Most software vendors (distributions vendors, hardware vendors, consulting corps, ...)
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