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TLWIR 31: Using GNU/Linux and Free Software to Bring Back American Innovation

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Free Software is mainly about innovation. Free Software engineers find radical new ways of solving old problems. In doing so, they teach those whose minds have ossified how to think outside of the box. The U.S. manufacturing sector is in trouble, partially because we have been outperformed by our neighbors in the East.

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Created by rdjere 10 years 17 weeks ago – Made popular 10 years 17 weeks ago
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Intellectual property: Patents against prosperity

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(Article from The Economist) AMERICA is still in denial... Innovation and invention is the key to continuing gains in prosperity. ... (Yet) This recent episode of Planet Money, "When Patents Attack", is an informative and entertaining primer on the way America's patent system squelches competition, slows innovation, and enables egregious predation through the legal system.

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Build Your Own City In Real-Time Strategy Game Unknown Horizons

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Unknown Horizons is a FREE and open-source, real-time 2D strategy game for Windows and Linux. The game emphasis on economy and city building:

Expand your small settlement to a strong and wealthy colony, collect taxes and supply your inhabitants with valuable goods. Increase your power with a well balanced economy and with strategic trade and diplomacy.

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Is Linux Bad for the Economy?

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I read a Newsweek* article titled, Stop Saving Now!, a cover story that actually encourages you, the consumer, to stop being so darn frugal and spend some money.

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Finding Simple Solutions To Complex Problems In An Insane World

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Another foray into the complication of seemingly mundane processes ;)

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Created by eggixyz 13 years 9 weeks ago – Made popular 13 years 9 weeks ago
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Linux can save your business.

http://it.toolbox.com

In these hard times I am seeing businesses dropping like flies. Even the big boys are talking about and acting on the laying off of thousands of workers. As always in these sort of situations what is a disaster for some is an opportunity for others. What is one mans pain is another's pleasure so to speak

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Will the economic downturn mean a free software upturn?

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com

So here we are, entering another year- and no doubt at some point during this year, more than one person will declare it the "year of the Linux desktop". Of course it won't happen and those who consider themselves free software opponents will soon let us know. Some things will never change. That said, is there any reason to suspect it might be different this year?

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Created by goofy 13 years 17 weeks ago – Made popular 13 years 17 weeks ago
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10 Reasons To Choose Linux in a Bad Economy

http://www.daniweb.com

Whether the ailing economy is real or imagined, you might be looking for ways to shed some pounds off your bloated IT budget. You should seriously consider Linux and Open Source software to put your 2009 financial appetite on a diet. Here are 10 reasons to choose Linux in a bad economy and none of them have to do with the fact that Linux is free.

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What would a recession mean for IT spending?

http://blogs.cnet.com

Normally IT gets walloped in a recession, with new projects put on hold until the economy thaws. Take the 2001 recession, for example, which saw IT budgets that had been growing 12.9% per year shrink to a 2.8% growth. In such circumstances, enterprises have traditionally placed existing projects on life support while cutting off the air supply to new projects.

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