April 2010
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On Your Docs, Set, Sprint!
Internet giants Google run a Summer of Code programme, in which ‘students’ each work on an open-source project, guided by mentors from their selected project. It’s a fantastic idea with good momentum and hype behind it; 3,400 students in nearly 100 countries have been accepted since its 2005 inception.
On the back of this, an article recently asked where the “Summer of...
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I'm Free!
As a software developer, the issue of copyright and distributivity can be a contentious issue. Some coders want to keep total control over their work, others want to share it among users.
Usually, software developed in a proprietary manner; I define this as many developers working for one company, which hides the wares from anyone else. This one company wants to capitalise on their idea —...