(Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Software Freedom)
The Rules of Open Source No Longer Apply | Built In
When free software first gained traction, the world looked very different.
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Software freedom is the freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose, to study how the program works, and change it, to redistribute copies and your modified versions so you can help others.
Open Source is Not Enough
by James Halliday // The open source movement has fundamentally changed how software gets written. But in the process, corporations have been given a vast gift of free labor.
Sustainable Open Source: The Maintainers Perspective or: How I Learned to Stop Caring and Love Open Source
It’s time to rethink Open Source
Why developers give away valuable work for free — and what can be done to take that money back.
Open Source Hype Antidote
critical and alternative views on free and open source software
Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
The terms “free software” and “open source” stand for almost the same range of programs. However, they say deeply different things about those programs, based on different values. The free software movement campaigns for freedom for the users of computing; it is a movement for freedom and justice. By contrast, the open source idea values mainly practical advantage and does not campaign for principles. This is why we do not agree with open source, and do not use that term.
When Free Software Isn't (Practically) Superior - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
The Open Source Initiative's mission statement reads, “Open source is a development method for software that harnesses the power of distributed peer review and transparency of process. The promise of open source is better quality, higher reliability, more flexibility, lower cost, and an end to predatory vendor lock-in.”
Freedom Isn't Free
An inquiry into the failure of the free software movement, and a proposal for recovering its radical soul.
Sustaining Open Source Software
The ‘open source sustainability’ debate continues with yet-another-company relicensing their product away from an open source license to…
LibreCorps mentors humanitarian startups on how to run the open source way
Free and open source software are no longer workplace taboos, at least not in the same way they were fifteen years ago.
How open-source software took over the world | TechCrunch
It was just five years ago that there was an ample dose of skepticism from investors about the viability of open source as a business model. Fast-forward to today and we’ve witnessed the growing excitement in the space.
Open Source and Free Software Considered Harmful — marisa's "blog"
(It's best to read this blog post after reading Steve Klabnik's The culture war at the heart of open source and What comes after “open so...
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
