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Description. "OpenFlix provides a directory of movies commonly thought to be in the public domain and works their owners are willing to let be distributed. Public Domain refers to the body of creative works and knowledge in which no person, government or organization has any proprietary interest such as a copyright. These works are considered ...
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The term free software is defined by the Free Software Foundation at http://www.fsf.org/. From the Wikipedia article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software: "Free software, as defined by the Free Software Foundation, is software which can be used, copied, studied, modified and redistributed without restriction. Freedom from such restrictions...
Summary of the impact of Free and Open Source Software: "The FOSS phenomenon is the subject of numerous political, economic, and sociological studies, all reacting to the potential for radical change it embodies. These studies focus mainly on four claims. First, FOSS is a novel technology for producing software: it "represent[s] a new mode of produ...
Carlo Daffara: Free software can be analyzed as "a software model, development model, or business model. These models are orthogonal, like the three axes of the three-dimensional coordinate system, their respective differentiators are control (software model), collaboration (development model), revenue (business model).The software model axis is th...
Summary of the arguments in favour of free software use: Free software is relevant just as free speech is. Software is run everywhere in our society today, governing most of what we can read and do. Unless the user has some fundamental freedoms over it, she/he has no knowledge or authority over what is happening inside it. Free software is enabled ...
1. Glyn Moody
"If the first era of free software was about the creation of the fully-rounded GNU/Linux operating system, the second saw a generation of key enterprise applications being written to run on that foundation. Things got moving with the emergence and rapid adoption of the LAMP stack – a term coined in 1998 - a key part of which was (obviously) MySQL (the “M”)." (http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Free-software-s-second-era-The-rise-and-fall-of-MySQL-959718.html2010)
2. Stefan Meretz:
"A Short History of Free Software (2) There is free software, because there is unfree software. Unfree software is »proprietary software«, which means, it is software that is owned by someone. That would not be bad so far, if the fact of this private property on software would not lead to the exclusion of others. The software owner prevents others from using the software, in order to create a scarce good. To turn software into a scarce good is relatively simple, you just have to hold back the...
3. Felix Stalder
"The new paradigm of producing in the digital commons emerged first in software development during the late 1980s. At that time, the notion of software as a standardized product for mass markets was still relatively new, established only in the mid 1970s by a new generation of companies such as Microsoft (founded in 1975). Before that, the computer industry regarded software as an add-on to the actual product, hardware. Improving software through mutual help among programmers was part of the...
Richard Stallman on the difference between free software and Open Source Software
"Some of the proponents of “open source” considered it a “marketing campaign for free software,” which would appeal to business executives by citing practical benefits, while avoiding the [gratis interpretation and sidelining the ethics and social value of a free hacker culture]. Other proponents flatly rejected the free software movement's ethical and social values. Whichever their views, when campaigning for “open source” they did not cite or advocate those values. The term “open source” qu...
Getting Paid for Free Software Development, some key distinctions
Stefan Merten proposes a research program on the influence of 'paid free software development': "A useful survey needs to make sure that those projects areconsidered as much as the big ones are.
The relation between Free Software and Free Culture
Benjamin Mako Hill : "Not only is the free software movement a source of software and licenses, it is also a source of inspiration. In particular, free software has been cited by many in the nascent free culture movement as an explicit source of inspiration and point of departure. While the Free Software Foundation has no position on whether works of culture should be free, many in the free software movement have supported and helped build the new movement for free cultural works. However, fr...
Description. Jamie Ranger: "Pettman argues that the contemporary subject is being guided by “hypermodulation: the attempt to distract us from the fact that we are indeed being synchronized to an unprecedented degree” (Pettman 2016, 130). The contention is that social media’s apparatus distracts its users with small bursts of content that ...
URL = http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-open-hand-project-a-low-cost-robotic-hand Description "The Open Hand Project aims to make advanced prosthetic hands more ...
Descriptions Vincent Liegey & Anitra Nelson: "The term ‘conviviality’ has a broad and deep connotation in degrowth. It functions in both social and technical dimensions. In Tools for Conviviality (1973), Ivan Illich applies a cooperative, mutual and sociable approach in ...
Description. "last month a production group calling themselves “The League of Peers” released a film titled Steal This Film, Part 2. The first part of this film, released in late 2006, dealt with the rise of file-sharing, and, in specific, with the legal troubles of the world’s largest BitTorrent site, Sweden’s The Pirate Bay.
The key requirements to become 'superempowered' are comprehension of a complex system's connectivty and operation; access to critical network hubs; possession of a force that can be leveraged against the structure of the system and a willingness to use it. There are a number real weaknesses to this concept, not least that it has thus far been ...
