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From ScienceDaily: Latest Science News:
Companies, organizations and citizens spend billions of dollars a year on licensing fees for proprietary software. Could that money not be put to better use developing free software alternatives and local expertise?
For that to happen, teachers, software developers, researchers, IT managers and citizens in general need to be educated about what free (also known as libre or open source) software is, how to use it and how to get the most benefit from it. But until now educational content and training resources about software that is free to use, copy, change, study and distribute have been woefully hard to find.
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