Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.en.html
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Off the topic of my head, maybe these can get you started:
Hackers, by Stephen Levy
The Hacker Ethic, by Pekka Himanen
True Names, by Vernor Vinge
Free Culture, by Lawrence Lessig
A Fire Upon The Deep (SF novel), by Vernor Vinge
How about this?
The Cathedral and the Bazaar : Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary by Eric Raymond,
It's from 1997 but addresses some of what you mentioned. Things have changed a lot since it was written though, so just keep that in mind.
If "Snow Crash" counts, you probably want to look into the novels "Daemon" and especially its sequel "Freedom" by Daniel Suarez. Probably also the novel "Walkaway" by Corey Doctorow.
"The Internet's Own Boy" is a documentary about Aaron Swartz that I suspect would also scratch your itch. (Available on Archive.org)
Edit: Almost forgot The Public Domain by James Boyle. I haven't read that one yet, but it's high on my list.
Is "The Public Domain" public domain? Or proprietay?
It's published under a CC BY-NC-SA Creative Commons license, according to Wikipedia. (Look at the "written works" section.)
One of the best quotes about Free Software, was how it is essentially using the same principles as Judo, use the opponents momentum against them.
The way Free Software uses full, restrictive copyright to create a permissive, free sharing-based copyright is an excellent example of the technique within many Judo throws.
I can't remember where this quote was from, and a quick search found nothing. Maybe someone else can pinpoint it.
Revolution OS(2001) was maybe the earliest documentary about Free Software.
This was great to view at LinuxConf2001, seeing many of the names you'd only read about previously.
Warning: It interviews various people discussed in this thread, but also contains plenty of Stallman being right.
snow crash, which talks about the decentralization of the internet from a fictional and futuristic story
I don't remember it prominently featuring a plotline like that. That was the one with
spoiler
the nam shub or whatever? And hacking people's brain's with, basically, NLP?
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removing DRM ("Turing Locks") from AI—legit AI too, not the hallucinating parlor tricks of today.
At first, I wasn't going to mention snow crash, since it doesn't have much to do with it, but I made the mention to make room for stories that don't have much to do with free software, but have things that can be related to philosophy, an example of this could be right to read, of course, ignoring the author's notes
PS Please do tell how to read the ":::".
Thanks!
There needs to be a film about the FOSS movement that matches the vibes of 1995's cyberspace masterpiece Hackers.
!unix_surrealism@lemmy.sdf.org
Probably weirder than you're looking for, but fun.
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