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Yochai Benkler: Open-source economics

Open-Source Economics is a video of a very moving and informative talk that Yochai Benkler gave at TED Conference. Yochai Benkler is one of the leading figures in the academia whose research and publications focus on free and open source movement or what he calls, “commons-based peer production.”  Yochai teaches

Switching to Open Source

If your organisation or businesses is planning on switching to open source, please take a look at the Software Alternatives compiled by  Open Source Africa.

The Open Source Definition

The Open Source Definition is a chapter written by Bruce Perens in the book, Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution. The Open Source Definition is a bill of rights for the computer user. It defines certain rights that a software license must grant you to be certified

Discover: Free accounting system

It is no doubt that this is our first article under discover. We are featuring webERP an an open-source web-based ERP system. webERP is a complete web based accounting/ERP system that requires only a web-browser and pdf reader to use. It has a wide range of features suitable for

What is Open Source Software?

What is Open Source software, anyway?: Perhaps you have already heard about open source software and you can’t quite believe that it offers a way to use software for free. Perhaps you have

Open Source debate rages

Despite recent changes to Microsoft’s licensing strategy for some software, the debate between commercial software developers and the open-source community continued to rage on Thursday, as top executives from Microsoft and Red Hat met at an industry conference. Craig Mundie, senior vice president at Microsoft, echoed his company’s