Richard Stallman
If you are a Richard Stallman fan, you choose your own master
“To have the choice between proprietary software packages, is being able to choose your master. Freedom means not having a master. And in the area of computing, freedom means not using proprietary software.”
“If programmers deserve to be rewarded or creating innovating programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs.”
“The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors’ works have survived even in part.”
“Not copy-right but copy-left.” – Copyleft is the idea that this cannot be sold, you are contributing.
-Richard Stallman, American software programmer
Digital Reinvention
1990s: Richard Stallman spent most of his time studying copyright laws
Stallman believes that the information and how it runs should be silo
However, anyone who has some sort of expertise, you can contribute it…this eventually becomes The Encyclopedia
This I find to be incredibly fascinating and gives everyone a chance to add, well almost everyone
Crowd Sourcing
The more eyeballs = the more criteria
The bigger the group of people working on a problem, the more solutions are developed and produced
The more people that like it, the more popular it becomes and the more useful it will be
It is operationalized every single day; i.e., Netflix, Amazon
Back to Stallman…the more people working on a software problem, the better the solution will be
Ideas are improved and get better when they are freely expressed
People take a wack at it…they see an efficiency, a mistake, they want to make a change, they want to make something better or more precise
Enclosure vs. Openness
Not exactly sure what we were talking about here or what it means, I was lost completely
If anything, I find myself to be very open, always giving, always sharing
