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10 Organizations of Interest to FOSS Developers

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 5, 2008

“Over the years, I came to appreciate a number of organizations
that although not directly linked to free software and open source
are of interest to the FOSS community. Pretty much everybody knows
the free software foundation, the software freedom law center, the
Linux foundation, The GNU project, the open source initiative,
Creative Commons or Groklaw. Here is a list of other extremely
interesting (mostly US-born) organizations and/or projects.

“PS: Except for Linux and GNU I didn’t mention FOSS-project
centric organizations…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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