Re: Roots Culture: Free Software Vibrations Inna Babylon

Roots Culture: Free Software Vibrations "inna Babylon"
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by Armin Medosch
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In this article I want to focus on free software as a culture.  My
first reason for doing so is to make it very clear that there is a
difference between open source and free software, a difference that
goes beyond the important distinction made by Richard Stallman. [1]
His ideas have grown legs and now the notion of free software (with
'free' as in 'freedom') has been taken further in ways he could not
have imagined.  Second, I want to show that at least a specific part
of the free software scene shows all the traits of a culture; this is
understood by protagonists of the scene and is made explicit through
the way they act.  With software development rooted in culture, it
becomes a discipline distinct from engineering, and is invested with
social and cultural values.