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Staff Writer at @JacobinMag. Writer and broadcaster for everyone. 📧msdawnfoster@gmail.com Tusk is the best Fleetwood Mac album. Only care about LFC.

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Getting Started with Open Source

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By Dawn Foster Verified, Michelle Buckner, Matt Ray, Olga Rusakova
| opensource.net
By Syed Laden Understanding the origins and philosophies of the software we use has never been more important in an era in which technology has become the backbone of our daily lives and the engine of innumerable industries. Open source is a term that frequently appears in discussions of software development and its impact on the global tech industry.
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What Happens to Relicensed Open Source Projects and Their Forks?

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By Dawn Foster Verified
| The New Stack Verified
Many popular open source projects are owned and driven by a single company, and in today’s difficult economic climate, those companies are under increasing pressure to deliver a strong return on their investments. One response to this pressure has been relicensing popular open source projects to more restrictive licenses in the hopes of generating more revenue. In some cases, relicensing has resulted in a hard fork of the original project.
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Dawn Foster Forever

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By Dawn Foster Verified
Dawn Foster, chronicler of austerity Britain and leading voice from the housing crisis, passed away last year aged 34. Foster, author of Lean Out (Repeater, 2016) and contributor to the London Review of Books, was a working class feminist who rose to prominence as a newspaper columnist and broadcast commentator; she was a fearless champion for those at the sharp end.
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