The document discusses open source and open standards. It provides definitions of open source, including that licensing includes GPL, Apache, and ECL. Open source communities typically involve small numbers of developers and projects hosted on SourceForge. Open standards bodies include W3C and standards for HTML, XML, SOAP, and floating-point arithmetic. The document asks what UBC can do to support open source, such as policy statements, user groups, and funding.
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  Why should we want to support open source at UBC?
  Vehicles for support:
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  User groups
  Funding