Internet Resources for Understanding This Brave New Digital World

This page has a collection of things about the ideas of Free and/or Open Source software, hardware, and computer-related culture. (FOSS: "Free / Open Source Software")

There is an ongoing set of controversies (in philosophy, priorities, and practice) among the Free and/or Open Source community. You can't learn to understand the digital world without understanding FOSS, but understanding FOSS requires understanding the controviersies. Sorry.

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The GNU 'Free Software' definition The GNU Software Manifesto Linus Torvalds says GPL v3 violates everything that GPLv2 stood for Goodbye, "free software"; hello, "open source" [Eric Raymond, 1998] Shut Up And Show Them The Code [Eric Raymond 199] The concept of "copyleft," a principle that allows Free and Open Source to grow and spread.

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