Episode 2: How can free software be any good?

The podcast starts with Speakeasy suffering a nationwide outage and the client-calls to Freelock pour in.

 

John and Aaron talk about the value of free (and "Free") software. John goes in depth about BackupPC and how it can help avoid a data disaster.

 

John also talks about why developers might develop software for free and why some companies might pay for "Free" (i.e. Open Source) software to be developed.

 

Links:

The Cathedral and the Bazaar

Backup PC

 

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