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Open Source Is Good, but How Can It Do Good?

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Glyn Moody
Aug 7, 2019

The Open Source world may not be so explicit about the underlying ethical aspect, but most coders probably would hope that their programming makes the world a better place. Now that the core technical challenge of how to write good, world-beating open-source code largely has been met, there’s another, trickier challenge: how to write open-source code that does good.
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