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member since:   15/6/2007
birth date:   11/12/1986
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  articles · Why don't artists use open source software?
18/6/2007 03:23 · 48 votes · 8 comments

By Karen Rustad and Nelson Pavlosky

The topic of the Saturday noon peer production stream session was "Why don't artists use open source software?" However, as was quickly established by the panel, there was also an important companion question: "Why don't developers make free art?"

Artists feel pressured to use open software for ideological reasons, but when they try it typically...

articles · i vs. Commons: Some commentary
16/6/2007 23:14 · 13 votes · 1 comment

I feel a little bad for Zittrain. Last night he gave a great keynote speech about how openness has a price (adware, spam, viruses, etc.) that makes a return to centralized, "appliance-ized" systems tempting for many and how we can "kick the can forward" and progress past the pitfalls of the current state of the technology. By the end of the evening, however, most or all of what...

   
 
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  articles · This Be Cat Country
by Simon Dingle · voted on 20/6/2007 03:25 · 37 votes · 1 comment

A story by Bjorn Wijers and Simon Dingle

Croatia is a land of warm weather, beautiful people, good beer and cats. So many cats. In fact, we spotted some locals with "CC" t-shirts while exploring old town during the iCommons Summit in Dubrovnik, Croatia and excited to speak to local commoners we asked them about their threads. Turns out CC stands for 'Cat Country'. And we're...

articles · Why don't artists use open source software?
by Karen · voted on 20/6/2007 03:23 · 48 votes · 8 comments

By Karen Rustad and Nelson Pavlosky

The topic of the Saturday noon peer production stream session was "Why don't artists use open source software?" However, as was quickly established by the panel, there was also an important companion question: "Why don't developers make free art?"

Artists feel pressured to use open software for ideological reasons, but when they try it typically...

   
 
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