Episode 2: How can free software be any good?

03/04/2009 39 min
Episode 2:  How can free software be any good?

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Episode Synopsis


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.

Music by ShotgunLab

Links:
The Cathedral and the Bazaar.
BackupPC


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