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This talk tries to give a comprehensive overview of free and open source software. The talk is framed in terms of a historical narrative but the focus, in terms of content, tries to focus on the concepts, principles, projects, and people at the heart of free and open source software. | This talk tries to give a comprehensive overview of free and open source software. The talk is framed in terms of a historical narrative but the focus, in terms of content, tries to focus on the concepts, principles, projects, and people at the heart of free and open source software. | ||
My background is in work on free software projects over | My background is in work on free software projects over 16 years(!) in a variety of projects: | ||
* [http://www.debian.org Debian] | * [http://www.debian.org Debian] | ||
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* [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GPL] | * [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GPL] | ||
* Strong orientation as social movement | * Strong orientation as social movement | ||
** | ** Software people are not always great at conveying this, but free | ||
software can be understand as a powerful call for user control over | |||
their own technology | |||
* [http://www.gnu.org GNU Project] and the creation of a replacement for UNIX | * [http://www.gnu.org GNU Project] and the creation of a replacement for UNIX | ||
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* Perhaps the major breakthrough was with Netscape releasing code to their browser in 1998 | * Perhaps the major breakthrough was with Netscape releasing code to their browser in 1998 | ||
* Many other companies ended up getting carried away in the boom (VA Linux (LNUX has single biggest IPO) (Krantz and Henry, 1999) | * Many other companies ended up getting carried away in the boom (VA | ||
Linux (LNUX has single biggest IPO) (Krantz and Henry, 1999) | |||
* Dotcom Bust | * Dotcom Bust | ||
* Reemergence of people who care about liberty and freedom (or institutional independence and autonomy) | * Reemergence of people who care about liberty and freedom (or institutional independence and autonomy) | ||
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** Large volunteer communities | ** Large volunteer communities | ||
** High levels of "user innovation" and lead users | ** High levels of "user innovation" and lead users | ||
* Most buildings on ''licenses'' (esp. copyleft) of FOSS but it's important to realize that these are instrumental | * Most buildings on ''licenses'' (esp. copyleft) of FOSS but it's important to realize that these are instrumental | ||
- in some cases, making mroe normatively sort of descriptions and | |||
calls for free things | |||
* Network services produce a number of important challenges | === New Challenges === | ||
* Network services produce a number of important challenges: | |||
** [http://autonomo.us Autonomo.us] | ** [http://autonomo.us Autonomo.us] | ||
** [http://autonomo.us/2008/07/franklin-street-statement/ Franklin Street Statement] | ** [http://autonomo.us/2008/07/franklin-street-statement/ Franklin Street Statement] | ||
* Software Patenting | * Software Patenting | ||
** [http://endsoftwarepatents.org End Software Patents] | ** [http://endsoftwarepatents.org End Software Patents] | ||