After the first movie, here is another one, that maybe you have already discovered while reading the Wikipedia page of Revolution OS. It’s “The Code”, a Finnish-made documentary about Linux from 2001, featuring some of the most influential people of the free software movement. It’s in English with Finnish subtitles (and some small parts are [...]

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Yesterday was definitely a day about 3D and Knowledge Sharing…in the morning I gave a presentation about Blender during the LinuxDay 2007 organized in Milan by OpenLabs.
In the evening I watched the Life of Galileo play (by Bertolt Brecht) at the Piccolo Theatre: a play about Knowledge (its research and its sharing), and an [...]

Tags: Design, Free Software, Knowledge, Linux, Sharing

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Once we define the platform, it is possible to comprehend what, effectively, a designer can design for an Open Peer-to-Peer community. It still remains to define how this project plan can be carried out holding account of the complexity of the [...]

Tags: Complexity, Design Methodology, Enabler, Institutions, Linux, Open P2P Communities

Linus Torvalds:

I think the real issue about adoption of open source is that nobody can really ever “design” a complex system. That’s simply not how things work: people aren’t that smart – nobody is. And what open source allows is to not actually “design” things, but let them evolve, through lots of different pressures in the market, and having the end result just continually improve.

And doing so in the

Tags: Complexity, Free Software, Linux, Peer-to-Peer