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An Ode to the Open Source Movement
Why should businesses use open source? One Star contributor’s answer.
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Sunday Comics
This week in Sunday Comics, Andy Capp buys his wife a new rolling pin, for reasons best left unexplored.
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The Economics of Delinkage
Dean Baker considers the difference between tariffs on shoes and tariffs that may save your life.
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Discrimination by Design
Lena Groeger investigates the built-in biases in technology and urban planning.
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Bias for Sale: The Corrupting Influence of Money in the Linux Foundation
When enemies of the GPL (GNU) like Microsoft and VMware — not just GNU/Linux-friendly companies such as Red Hat — pay the Linux Foundation to get their way. Dr. Roy Schestowitz explains.
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The Growing List of How the Copyright Office Has Failed Us
The US Copyright Office is a broken thing. Meredith Filak Rose shows you all the ways in which it has recently failed citizens across the land.
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Free Thing of the Week: Icons from Game-Icons.net
This week’s Free Thing of the Week is for the game designers out there…and the people who like cool icons. Delapouite’s icons from Game-Icons.net take center stage.
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A Serious Business
What can a good joke do? Mary O’Hara meets the performers and researchers who say that comedy can change how we think and even how we act.

