Citations

There is no collective freedom without you

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1. "Research shows that the GPL is the fourth most used license on one of the most popular collaborative developer platforms.."
2. "...in 2023, the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL) moved to the fifth position globally."
3. "Another recent statistic states that 96% of all software has free software in it."

Free software can strengthen the US healthcare system

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1. "...have led to a 31.4% drop in trust in healthcare providers..."
2. "The cost of care was about $4.9 trillion USD in 2023, or $14,750 per person, between private insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, and personal out-of-pocket costs in the US alone."

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1. "In 2023, according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 65,766 qualified applications were turned away from nursing programs..."

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Corrections

a. The following sentence in the article, "There is no collective freedom without you" will be updated in the digital Bulletin to reflect the more accurate percentage of 96% instead of 92%: "Another recent statistic states that 92% of all software has free software in it."