Open source can help the developing world, but it's not without challenges

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Many see open source technology as an ideological tool – a way to promote freedom in a world of closed, proprietary systems. For Canonical’s Jono Bacon, Mozilla’s Stormy Peters and Wikimedia’s Tomasz Finc, it’s more about improving humanity. Speaking at Expand, they argued that open code connects …