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A Few Grains of Sand in the FOSS Bucket

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KS
Ken Starks
Dec 20, 2013

From out of this chaos comes a surprising order and opportunity for millions. Free open source software allows us to put meaningful, reliable and no-cost software on every computer wherever we find the need.

That’s not to say that we don’t have our challenges. Now that we’ve discovered just what great work we do, let’s look at some glaring deficits.

KS

Ken Starks

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