Why The Future Of Science Must Be In Free Software
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This essay is about free software. Nowadays the importance of software is increasing day after day, and more and more people are obliged to use software in their everyday life. This is why talking about software often means talking about people’s habits with all the relative consequences: economic and pseudophilosophical arguments are often mixed up. This essay is an attempt to give an objective overview about how free software can be useful for anybody, showing in particular how important it can be for the development of science; for this purpose several links plus few practical examples are provided, to allow anybody to make up their own mind.
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