I don't think that's entirely accurate. The point of the creative economy isn't to largely regurgitate the ideas of others and then slap a price tag on it. The idea of a creative economy, at least in my eyes, is to reward those who are exceptionally talents and create something new and of value. Taking an amazing open source project, putting some new makeup so to speak on it, and calling it a product hardly seems to fit with the spirit of what I call the creative economy.
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If you're upset about a positive story because you simply don't like the company yourself, that seems like a personal problem. Not everything is a conspiracy.
Check out the Django documentation on https://www.djangoproject.com/. The documentation is wonderful and very well written. I learned Django from reading that. As for Python, I'd suggest the Learn Python The Hard Way free ebook/exercises rather than CodeAcademy. There is also Dive Into Python. I am new to programming and used these resources to build some web apps in Python. You should learn enough from these to hire someone to do the work for you.