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Tangoing All the Way: Is Everything Negotiable?
June 1, 2011 | 19 commentsTags: boycott, first sale, HarperCollins, ILS, intellectual freedom, librarian, negotiations, open source, vendors“Negotiation seems like dancing the Tango, two steps forward, two steps back and suddenly three surprising steps forward.” — Margot Wallström Smart, well-intentioned people often have good reasons for saying stupid things. Who hasn’t been swept up in an election, worried that there will be terrible consequences if we put the wrong person in the [...]
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W-E-B-S-I-T-E, Find Out What It Means To Me
July 22, 2009 | 32 commentsTags: blacklight, drupal, evergreen, kochief, koha, library websites, open source, scriblio, sopac, vufind, wordpressIt’s interesting how many people don’t really understand the concept of open source. People often describe freeware as open source, or they’ll describe free web-based applications as open source, or applications with APIs that allow for mashups. There are articles all the time, on some of the most popular websites, that recommend free software but [...]
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