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Want open source? Publish open documents!

Posted Apr 7, 2011 16:17 UTC (Thu) by roman (subscriber, #24157)
Parent article: Future storage technologies and Linux

If IDEMA would like participation from the free software community, they might try making their specifications publicly available at no charge. $300 for an individual membership in order to get access is a substantial disincentive for noncommercial developers (for example, college students like Linus was when he started writing the kernel).


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