Posts Tagged ‘Richard Stallman’

Characterising the Open Source Movement: It’s not the ‘new socialism’

June 18, 2009

Just as I reach the end of reading Rebel Code by Glyn Moody , a riveting (to my mind) early history of GNU/Linux (subtitled Linux and the Open Source Revolution), Kevin Kelly’s article in Wired mag comes to my attention. Kelly claims the open source movement is ‘the new socialism’.

No, it isn’t.

For example, there is no way on God’s earth that (more…)


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