Free/Open Source Software (FOSS)

Decoding Liberation: The Promise of Free and Open Source Software

Choice Outstanding Academic Title Software is more than a set of instructions for computers: it enables (and disables) political imperatives and policies. Nowhere is the potential for radical social and political change more apparent than in the practice and movement known as

The people holding up the internet

Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time.

Are Linux and Open Source Un-American? | Linux Journal

Jim Allchin, Microsoft Windows operating system chief, was quoted in an article about open source last week. I advise any Linux user to go and read it if you haven't already, as it's great comedy material.

Ethical Source: Open Source, Evolved.

The Organization for Ethical Source is a global, multidisciplinary community devoted to centering justice, equity, and human rights in the practice of open source.

Open Source is Broken

The Open Source movement, as championed by the OSI, prizes absolute openness above all other concerns. Openness, they claim, is an absolute good, from which all other virtues flow, not to be questioned or criticized. It doesn’t matter if that openness enables evil in the world, without openness we

Think Like a Commoner | A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons

In our age of predatory markets and make-believe democracy, our troubled political institutions have lost sight of real people and practical realities. But if you look to the edges, ordinary people are reinventing governance and provisioning on their own terms. The commons is arising as a serious, practical alternative to the corrupt Market/State.

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Open Source Software and Corporate Influence — Andrew Lilley Brinker

Exploring how corporations gain power in open source projects, and how to build resilience to corporate capture.

Save Open Source, Save the World. Following up on “Why Open Source… |…

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10 years gone: The VA Linux Systems IPO

Open-source advocate John Mark Walker commemorates the 10th anniversary of the Nasdaq's "most successful" IPO to date, from the perspective of a company coder.

The GNU Manifesto - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation

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The GNU Manifesto - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation

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Why Open Source Failed. (If you like this essay, you may be… | by Joh…

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Tyranny of Permissionlessness

open source’s narrow focus further empowers those with other ways to exclude