Lessons in Freedom from Linux and the Open Source Software community

f you've read my blog often enough, you'll know how much I admire and pursue human freedom. Well with the electronic and computer age, we've come into a whole new era where computers and the electronic data we use everyday, defines how our lives operate. Imagine a world where those systems were all closed structures, and we didn't have the freedom to create and modify technologies to suit our needs.

Linux and Open Source Software represent the freedom to create and modify the systems and data that rule our lives. I'd always admired people like Eric Raymond, Linus Torvalds, and Richard Stallman, but watching Revolution OS personalised their struggle in my eyes. This is a great documentary (that you might have heard of) that puts into perspective what the vanguards of the information age are doing to shape our free access to the systems, data and the functional quality of those systems that rule our lives.

Posted by Timothy Washington on 2007.11.07| Original post

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