FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE: A TUNNEL TO NIGHT OR LIGHT Authored By: ANMOL CHAWLA & NAMRATA BEHERA ABSTRACT Since the Industrial Revolution‚ humankind has sought ways to become more efficient in all realms of life from production at the factory to cooking meals at home. Today the mediating force between technology and humans is software. Life of humans has been enhanced and their standard of living has increased with the advent of new technologies. The creation of computer‚
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“Free trade is a necessary evil”. How far do you agree? Free trade is a branch of economics that proclaims freedom of trade and non-intervention of government in private entrepreneurship. Its main feature is absence of “trade-distorting policies” which reduce imports. The effectiveness of free trade and should countries adopt it to boost economic growth has been a debate since 18th century‚ after Adam Smith wrote his book “The Wealth of Nations”. There he outlined the main benefits of free trade
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Being Unionized or Union-Free Introduction In this paper I will discuss the steps and actions an employer will need to take to avoid a union‚ and how to achieve strong‚ lasting and positive employee relations. This will ultimately be done by understanding why employees choose unions. The steps that employers can take is by added various training programs against unions‚ require attendance of employees in anti-union meetings‚ and hiring outside labor relations consultants to block all attempts
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Do Agencies That Facilitate International Trade Prevent Free Trade? If the answer is yes‚ the assertion is that the concept of free trade is a gimmick or an unfair scenario. If a nation has more flexibility through trade agreements‚ and that nation also offers more subsidies to its exporters; other nations that may not be able to offer their businesses equal aid‚ will not be able to participate in true “free trade”. Countries like China and the US wield great power when it comes to trade. Smaller
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Seneyda Soler Professor Lilly Topics in Labor Laws April 1‚ 2013 The Epmloyee Free Choice Act has been a hot topic within the past few years. It has been pushed through congress several times‚ with hopes to change the way unions get organized. Within the next few pages‚ this paper will describe what a union is and how it is started‚ what the Employee Free Choice Act entails‚ how it will change our system‚ and the arguements for and against passing this bill. The EFCA is a system that
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Euthanasia should be legalized? As human beings we should all have the right to end our suffering and to choose a dignified‚ quiet death. Euthanasia is the hastening of death for a suffering‚ terminally ill person. It is a quiet and easy death. Indeed‚ the term euthanasia quite literally means in Greek a good death. Euthanasia should be made a legal procedure within Australia as any such legalization would give people the legal right to choose a ‘good death’‚ a dignified death for them. The historical
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IKEA case 1) Marianne Barner‚ IKEA business area manager for Carpets‚ should definitely accept the invitation to appear on the upcoming broadcast of the German video program. Indian rugs account for a small part of IKEA`s turnover‚ maintaining IKEA’s reputation‚ brand and image is imperative. Thus‚ Barner must act according to Item 8 of “A Furniture Dealer`s Testament” – “Taking responsibility – A Privilege”. During the video program Miss Barner must admit in calm and cooperative way even when
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Premier‚ log in. 2. Step Two: Search- Gluten-free 3. Step Three: Make sure you check full text 4. Step Four: There is over 5 pages and 864 results for Gluten-free‚ so I narrowed it down by adding in the search engine-Costs. 5. Step Five: The results brought me down to 2 pages and 17 results. 6. Step Six: The 1st result was the closet to my topic. The Academic Journal title is “Limited availability and higher costs of gluten-free foods‚” by Singh‚ J. and Whelan‚ K. 7. Step Seven:
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FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE (FOSS): An Inside looks to changing Trends and Practices ‘Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is computer software that can be classified as both free software and open source software.’ So the question arises from the above definition is that what is free software and the other question arises is what is open sources software? Free software is computer software which is distributed along with its source code and are released under terms that every users has the
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method is not appropriate here‚ but we still need to calculate the weight average cost of capital (WACC) of AirThread. Approach to value AirThread before considering any synergy 1. Develop a projection of unlevered free cash flow for AirThread. * Discount AirThread’s unlevered free cash flows at unlevered WACC. 2. Determine the PV of interest tax shield: * Discount AirThread’s interest tax shield by debt cost of capital (interest rate of debt). 3. Add the unlevered value to the PV of interest
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