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A free education: Open-Of-Course

Tim Cowlishaw
2006-11-19
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Attempts to educate and evangelise to people about the benefits of free software are often frustrasted by the common perception that free software is made ‘by geeks, for geeks’ and is therefore of limited interest to a less ‘technical’ audience.

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