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 One thing to note - yes, free software can have no cost, but anyone is welcome to sell it. Say you modify and package up some free software utility programs and put them on a disc - you may sell that package. You must however give the source code back to the community for no cost. One thing to note - yes, free software can have no cost, but anyone is welcome to sell it. Say you modify and package up some free software utility programs and put them on a disc - you may sell that package. You must however give the source code back to the community for no cost.
  
-Free software is a type of '[commoning](/comg/commoning)' [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia), the free encyclopedia, is another famous example. The approach can be used for problem-solving too - it's sometimes used in medical research. And who knows, maybe one day we'll have free & open source government.+Free software is a type of '[commoning](/comg/commoning)' — [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia), the free encyclopedia, is another famous example. The approach can be used for problem-solving too - it's sometimes used in medical research. And who knows, maybe one day we'll have free & open source government.
  
  
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 - [Low-impact shopping](lish:shopping) - [Low-impact shopping](lish:shopping)
 - [Wikis](wiks:wikis) - [Wikis](wiks:wikis)
-- [Low-impact money](limo:money)+- [Collaborative finance](cofi:collaborative_finance)
 - [Platform co-ops](pltc:platform_co-ops) - [Platform co-ops](pltc:platform_co-ops)
  
 ===== Specialist curators of this topic ===== ===== Specialist curators of this topic =====
  
-* [[p:Simon Grant]]+* [[user:asimong|Simon Grant]]
  
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