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* | * [http://mako.cc| Mako] | ||
* | * [http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/index.html Eric von Hippel] | ||
* | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Hyde Lewis Hyde] | ||
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* | * An extract of [http://freeasinspeechandbeer.com/drupal/ free, as in speech and beer] by Darren Wershler-Henry? | ||
* An extract about [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_economy gift economies], such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gift_(book) The Gift] by Mauss, or [http://www.amazon.com/Gift-Imagination-Erotic-Life-Property/dp/0394715195 The Gift] by Hyde. | |||
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar The Cathedral and the Bazaar] | |||
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*Copyright and open software – free as in beer v. free as in speech | * Copyright and open software – free as in beer v. free as in speech | ||
*economy v. culture | * economy v. culture | ||
* inside and outside – insiders motivation v. legal regime | * inside and outside – insiders motivation v. legal regime | ||
* gift v. reputation | * gift v. reputation | ||
Revision as of 18:58, 19 December 2008
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Precis
Guest wish list
- Mako
- Eric von Hippel
- Lewis Hyde
- Eric Raymond/OSI ?
- PJ/Groklaw
readings
- An extract of free, as in speech and beer by Darren Wershler-Henry?
- An extract about gift economies, such as The Gift by Mauss, or The Gift by Hyde.
- The Cathedral and the Bazaar
basic questions
- Copyright and open software – free as in beer v. free as in speech
- economy v. culture
- inside and outside – insiders motivation v. legal regime
- gift v. reputation
- How can a dispersed, multilingual collection of coders working for free assemble something as complicated as a web browser, let alone an entire operating system? Open-source projects are famously free-wheeling, but different organizational models and tools have sprung up to solve these obstacles.
What are the forces that drive hackers to contribute to open source projects? What, if anything, can we learn from applying theories of gift economies to open source projects? Should we read Lewis Hyde's The Gift? (n.b. i may be motivated by my own desire to read the book -- dulles)
- Strategies and indemnities (e.g. SCO v. IBM)
- Questioning the foundations of the free software movement (i.e. the "four freedoms")[1]
how much does access to the source code really matter anymore? Are there alternative theories (e.g. "generativity") that better capture the values at stake? Affero License? (Eben Moglen?)
- The organization/groups/cooperation questions: how do free software projects organize and govern themselves, and what broader lessons might be learned from it? (e.g. debian, IETF)
Misc
- Key will be to crystallize to a particular issue or question. That could be done by selecting one or two academic works in progress by a leading and/or provocative scholar, or it might be done by talking to Eric Raymond about his biggest worries and about the evolution of the Open Source Initiative. A lot of his work has to do with keeping a political coalition together, and he might have some good stories and problems to bring to us. If you're game, maybe reach out to him? JZ 16:49, 15 December 2008 (UTC)