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"The underlying source code is not copyrighted and therefore available free of charge to read, modify, and build upon."

This is a serious misconception as open source code is copyrighted -- it's just licensed to end users with terms that may allow modification and creation of derivative works. If you don't abide by terms of the particular open source license, then it's still copyright infringement.

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Very true. He was probably confusing Open Source with Public Domain there.

I also don't like how the article speaks about financial benefit. I mean, that's more the smaller part of the benefit you get. Oh well..

From a mayoral point of view, thats the only thing that matters to him and the most important reason for choosing to use OSS.

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