Parallel universes: open access and open source [LWN.net]

Parallel universes: open access and open source

Posted Feb 23, 2006 11:12 UTC (Thu) by ekj (guest, #1524)
Parent article: Parallel universes: open access and open source

Good article ! Encourage !

Okay, so some of it is controversial. That's fine: it's thougth-provoking nevertheless, and the article is clearly written and well-articulated.

I don't remember Glyn Moody articles on Lwn before, but I would welcome more of them.

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The Greatest OS That (N)ever Was By Glyn Moody

Posted Feb 23, 2006 16:04 UTC (Thu) by grouch (guest, #27289) [Link] (1 responses)

Here's a Glyn Moody article on Wired that you may enjoy (dateline August, 1997): The Greatest OS That (N)ever Was By Glyn Moody

That article has saved me a lot of yapping over the years, as it is a fine chronicle of the beginning of Linux. You will likely see some parallels with the above article in Moody's attention to details beyond dates and names.

The Greatest OS That (N)ever Was By Glyn Moody

Posted Feb 24, 2006 0:36 UTC (Fri) by ordonnateur (guest, #6652) [Link]

Should also read "Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution "
same author (ISBN: 0140298045) 2001

Parallel universes: open access and open source

Posted Feb 23, 2006 19:44 UTC (Thu) by thoffman (guest, #3063) [Link] (1 responses)

Seconded! This is great stuff, expanding the horizons of those of us who have been familiar with Free software for a long time, and appreciate knowing about closely-related trends.

Makes me wonder what else is out there beyond the obvious (Wikipedia...)

For instance, I'm aware of the Creative Commons effort but don't really know much about it, other than "kind of like free software, but free content/media". A similar introductory article on that would be nice to get me up to speed.

There should be, and may already be many similar groups, all turning on the friction-free axis of communication the Internet provides to produce collabarative work. Photography, video, movies, recorded music, sheet music, sound samples, fiction of all genres, curriculum & teaching materials from elementary up to post-graduate? Architecture and building plans?

Creative Commons sources

Posted Feb 27, 2006 17:21 UTC (Mon) by Kluge (subscriber, #2881) [Link]

MIT and Rice, at least, are opening up a lot of their course material to the public (for a good article on this subject, see www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/07/29/open). And some authors (Ben Crowell for instance, see www.lightandmatter.com) are producing Free textbooks.

And for many images, as well as some sound and video, there's the Wikimedia Commons (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page).

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