Remembering the promise of FLOSS

Posted by tuxchick on Nov 13, 2011 10:36 PM EDT
IT World; By Brian Proffitt
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In the last decade, one of the ways the free and open source software communities were going to work on the problems of global illiteracy and information distribution was to be the source of computer software for developing nations.

With grand plans like the One Laptop Per Child program in place, the FLOSS community was gung-ho on the notion of delivering great software at a perfect cost: free.

So what happened?

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