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Open Source Solutions for Libraries?

Posted by Cliff on from the for-your-friendly-neighborhood-librarian dept.

rscrawford asks: "I'm a former web developer who's been playing with open source solutions wherever possible for just over a year, and now I'm on that obsessive track toward becoming a librarian. Now, I've seen a lot of library websites and catalog software packages that are MS-based; what open-source solutions are there for libraries, and where have you seen libraries using open-source technologies (like Linux) to solve problems?"

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  1. Re:Mac OS X by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    a freeBSD rip off? That is why BSD was used by Apple, because they couldn't rip off GPL software.

    It's why M$ used the BSD TCP/IP Stack etc......

    BSD=feel free to rip me off, I don't care.
    GPL= Give and take.