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Technology, the law and you: Open source software

Technology, the law and you: Open source software

August 27, 2015

Via: itCurated

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Tech

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The software that companies use for the basics says a lot about them – there are stodgy Microsoft shops with creaky legacy apps from the Windows XP/IE6 days, feather-light Google Apps startups with everything in a browser, and so on.

Fully free and open-source software (FOSS) companies – with their LibreOffices and Hadoops and ClamAVs – give off a distinct whiff of technological savvy. After all, they’re skillful enough to not have to pay software licensing costs.