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Virtue, Transparency, and Health

01-Apr-09

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about Virtue. One thing that has been lost over time with the word “virtue”, which we can rediscover with the etymology of the word, is that it is supposed to be habitual. The original Greek context of the word is habitual excellence. I must admit preferring that interpretation of [...]

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Open Source in One Page

01-Apr-09

Explanation with History
In the early 1980s MIT programmer Richard Stallman decided to build a replacement to the very expensive, proprietary UNIX computer operating system and make it completely free. His idea of what free meant extended the boundaries a bit when he formed the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and included in his mission statement, [...]

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