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- Benjamin Reynolds commented on the blog Comp 361 - Assignment 4 - Reflections
- Angie Abdou commented on the blog Good Feelings & New Habits: Building an Academic Writing Identity
- Ashley Fry published a blog post Good Feelings & New Habits: Building an Academic Writing IdentityComments
- Angie Abdou August 7, 2016 - 5:36pm
Great! Congratulations on finishing these blogs. A few tips:
1) avoid ready-made phrases. Any time you use a phrase you're accustomed to seeing in print, think of a fresher way to make your point. Example: "like night and day";
2) Avoid unmodified this. Always say this what - for greater clarity and precision.
Otherwise a good, clear post - I enjoyed reading it. I'm glad the course has been such a positive experience for you.
Angie
- Angie Abdou commented on the blog The Ups and Downs of Peer Reviews
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- Angie Abdou commented on the blog Writer Anxiety: Jumping from Undergrad to Graduate Writer
- Ashley Fry published a blog post The Ups and Downs of Peer ReviewsComments
- Angie Abdou August 4, 2016 - 12:11pm
This is another well-written blog, Ashley. Good work. I'm sorry to hear the first workshop-group didn't work out for you. That's disappointment. I'm so glad that this one was more productive.
We're all caught up on blogs now - send me a link when you have your fifth one done.
Thanks!
angie
- Viorel Tabara commented on a bookmark What is open source? — Open Words in the group Open Source Software
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- Viorel Tabara August 3, 2016 - 11:54pm
Based on the number of software released under a variant of the GPL versus any other license shows that FSF was actually quite successful. Here's a count of the top 10 licenses used by packages making up my Fedora 24 install:
omiday ~ $ rpm -qa --qf "%{license}\n" | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail 31 Public Domain 34 ASL 2.0 39 LGPLv2 74 GPLv2 84 GPLv3+ 124 GPL+ or Artistic 187 BSD 234 MIT 319 LGPLv2+ 358 GPLv2+Also, from a total number of software packages:
omiday ~ $ rpm -qa | wc -l 2205
more than a half is licensed under some kind of GPL:
omiday ~ $ rpm -qa --qf "%{license}\n" | grep GPL | wc -l 1475A full Elgg package is also licensed under GPL. A reference to The GNU/Linux FAQ by Richard Stallman is a good resource for understanding why "free" is important.
Money wise, there is definitely less to make with free and open source software. In both free/open source and proprietary cases the "product" is made once, however in the latter case it is then sold millions of times. Take Microsoft as an example. The question to ask is whether increasing the profit margins benefits the society.
With regards to women participation, it is worth mentioning that at least in the Linux world there is no shortage of support: FSF, Arch, Debian, Fedora and many others are all supporting this initiative.
A more elaborate discussion could make it into a chapter for the already discussed Open Source course at AU.
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