October 26, 2001
Hampshire College Favors Noncommercial Web Software Open to All
Most people never see the software behind a Web site. But some students and faculty and staff members at Hampshire College are making deliberate decisions about the programs that run the college's sites: They have to be nonproprietary programs that 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
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