I am looking for works about free software or based on this philosophy, there are books like "Free software for a free society" and documentaries like "Linux code", but I would like to know what other works there are related to free software and this philosophy, there are things like snow crash, which talks about the decentralization of the internet from a fictional and futuristic story, these types of works are also valid.

  • perishthethought@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    How about this?

    The Cathedral and the Bazaar : Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary by Eric Raymond,

    https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/the-cathedral-and-the-bazaar-musings-on-linux-and-open-source-by-an-accidental-revolutionary-9780596001087

    It's from 1997 but addresses some of what you mentioned. Things have changed a lot since it was written though, so just keep that in mind.

    • gnuhaut@lemmy.ml
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      1 month ago

      Raymond is a fucking fascist.

      CW racism

      He'd call himself a libertarian, but he's the kind of libertarian that wants to bomb muslims for hating our freedoms and thinks black people are just naturally more criminal because they have the crime gene or something, and no I'm not making this up.

      Plus he's one of the "open source" rebrand types, so as not to scare the hoes corporations with too much scary "free software" hippie communism.

    • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
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      1 month ago

      Look, I enjoy these comics, but OP is clearly looking for philosophical literature not loosely-coherent lore-driven webcomics...

      • Manito Manopla@lemmy.ml
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        1 month ago

        Although it has nothing to do with what I'm looking for, I would like to see the comics you mention anyway

  • Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 month ago

    snow crash, which talks about the decentralization of the internet from a fictional and futuristic story

    I don't remember it prominently featuring a plotline like that. That was the one with\

    spoiler

    the nam shub or whatever? And hacking people's brain's with, basically, NLP?

    Well if that counts, then Neuromancer by William Gibson fits in that it's about\

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    removing DRM ("Turing Locks") from AI—legit AI too, not the hallucinating parlor tricks of today. ::: 😏

    • Manito Manopla@lemmy.ml
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      1 month ago

      At first, I wasn't going to mention snow crash, since it doesn't have much to do with it, but I made the mention to make room for stories that don't have much to do with free software, but have things that can be related to philosophy, an example of this could be right to read, of course, ignoring the author's notes

  • Riley@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    There needs to be a film about the FOSS movement that matches the vibes of 1995's cyberspace masterpiece Hackers.