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Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
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Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invarient Sections, with no Front-Cover
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Texts and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".
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The following text is a argument for the comercial benefits of Free Software. As the initiall author I would like it to act as a template for
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expansion by other contributers to further the case of Free Software. With this in mind I would like this document to be
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released under the GNU FDL.
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Introduction
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The Role of Ethics in Business
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A Brief History of Free Software
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Commercial Arguments against Free Software
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Commercial Arguments for Free Software
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Free or Open why does it Matter
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GNU Free Documentation License
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Introduction
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Free software has had a dramatic effect on the IT industry it has also raised important issues such copyrights, patents, freedom
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of information in the mid 20th Century onwards. Many of the arguments have been made by people who are very technicaly literate
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not all people who understand the importance of the issues raised are technically literate or at least not as technically literate.
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The initial contributer to this text is one such individual. In this text we hope to push forward the benefit of Free Software
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from difering perspectives the Ethical standpoint, the software developement angle and also the comercial aspect.
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