Open Source Is Good, but How Can It Do Good?
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Publishing date: 2019-08-16
Published on: Linux Journal
summary: The Open Source world may not be so explicit about the underlying ethical aspect, but most coders probably would hope that their programming makes the world a better place. Now that the core technical challenge of how to write good, world-beating open-source code largely has been met, there’s another, trickier challenge: how to write open-source code that does good.
authors: Glyn Moody
link to paper: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/open-source-good-how-can-it-do-good
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