在香港社會論壇「自主媒體.媒體自主」的講稿
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- 自由軟體運動 (Free Software Movement)
- What is free?
- Run the program for any purpose
- Study how the program works and adopt to your needs
- redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor
- improve the program, and release your improvement to public so that the whole community benefit
- As a social movement
- Write / Spread Software - "An alternative way" - becoz you cannot ask corporate to be "free"
- Awareness
- A lot of public speaking
- Legislation
- Political campaign against software patent, copyright, etc...
- GNU : Anti - Information Commondification ??
- Open Software Movement
- What is Open-Sources?
- Technical-Superiority
- Persuasive to business
- Eric Raymond - "If you want to change the world, you have to co-opt the people who write the big-checks"
- Alan Cox - "Majority of the kernel developers don't buy the FSF political agenda"
- Mode of Production
- IBM, Sun - Live with open standards to provide SERVICES
- HP, Router Manufactuor - Open sources as a way to cut-cost, cheap way to produce products
- Open sources - Development lead by the big one
- Open sources as a mode of production for existing software industry, and the decline of free software movement
