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  1. Switzerland Mandates Open Source Software for Government

    Since January, Swiss law has required the federal government to publish the software it develops as open source. It's not quite "all government software must be open source," as some headlines put it, but it's one of…

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  2. The 4th of July and the Open Source Movement

    Benjamin Franklin refused to patent his inventions and Thomas Jefferson wrote the best description of open source two centuries early. A short Independence Day piece on what the founders thought about ideas, and what…

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