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free software movement  

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  • Free software fosters cooperation because all developers can share software and knowledge freely. This is consistent with the idea of science, and how new ideas are built from old ones, and where ideas can be peer reviewed and incrementally improved over time by the contributions of many. [Source: Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice; Free Software Movement]

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