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Wednesday, October 03, 2001
http://chronicle.com/free/2001/10/2001100301t.htm Hampshire College Favors Noncommercial Web Software Open to All By SCOTT CARLSON Most people never see the software behind a Web site. But a group of students and faculty and staff members at Hampshire College are nevertheless making some very deliberate decisions about the programs that run the college's sites: They have to be nonproprietary programs with codes that the students or staff members can read, rewrite, and customize -- not the secret, immutable codes owned by companies like Microsoft. "The students on this campus are very active in the free-software movement," says Lee Spector, an associate professor of computer science who is helping redesign the college's Web site. "What became clear to me and the students and many others was that our Web presence would become a vital part of our community. It's how we present ourselves to ourselves, to prospective students, parents, and the world. As such, we want it to have a certain type of behavior."...
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