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Submission + - An 'open source manifesto' to counter the ICT cuts (agent4change.net)

Submitted by tdobson on Wednesday July 21, 2010 @05:47PM

tdobson writes: With education quangos and budgets rapidly being cut in the UK, a senior university lecturer has proposed An 'open source manifesto' to counter the ICT cuts as one way to save money.
Is open source be the answer to shrinking education budgets?

Submission + - Last.fm to start charging international users (mashable.com) 2

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tdobson

on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @03:44PM

tdobson writes: "The popular online radio service, Last.fm, has announced that users outside of the UK, USA and Germany will need to start paying 3.00 (about $4.40 USD/£2.80 GBP) per month to continue streaming music on their service.

Last.fm doesn't offer much of a reason as to the change, other than writing on their blog that "There will be a 30 track free trial, and we hope this will convince people to subscribe and keep listening to the radio"

Already, there appears to be quite a backlash in responses so far, amongst subscribers and non-subscribers of all nationalities — has this killed Last.fm's appeal, globally?"

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