Talk:Free and open-source software

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Why contribute section? - Commercial and individual

Panel on why people contribute - perhaps shared with collaborative design section

The amazing complexity of some these projects

Wikimedia commons

Books

Creative commons etc.

Paragraph largely made redundant by the free riders section:

The fact that thousands of other people are able to make use of the software having put in no effort themselves and haven't paid any money simply isn't an issue - after all it effectively costs nothing to replicate the software and the open-source developers are only too happy that it is proving useful to a wider audience. It is truly maximizing it's utility.

Other software to list:

Mention fsf focus on freedom, OSInitiative focus on commons-based peer production as more efficient development model (than proprietary methods)