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.eeEnglish
    114·
    3 months 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
      42·
      3 months 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.

      • steeznson@lemmy.world
        41·
        3 months ago

        First time hearing this and at face value he sounds like an asshole but I don’t see how it’s relevant to free software. The book itself is a classic which is still worth reading.

        FOSS attracts a lot of strong personalities. Stallman is a weirdo but everyone still uses GCC and I’m still personally using emacs.

        • gnuhaut@lemmy.ml
          22·
          3 months ago

          Raymond is so much worse. Since you apparently aren’t convinced I pulled some quotes:

          CW racism, homophobia, Islamophobia

          Black people are stupid and violent:

          In the U.S., blacks are 12% of the population but commit 50% of violent crimes; can anyone honestly think this is unconnected to the fact that they average 15 points of IQ lower than the general population? That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color.

          Again:

          What’s keeping women in general from occupying the vast middle of the programming field is not general intelligence. On the other hand, the average black American has an IQ about 85 and that is pretty much a disqualifier right there. Only the cohort of their bell curve above 3 STDs from median has much hope of matching the capability of the average white programmer.

          Police should shoot black men (calls them “males” like they’re animals), that’s just rational:

          Police who react to a random black male behaving suspiciously who might be in the critical age range as though he is an near-imminent lethal threat, are being rational, not racist. They’re doing what crime statistics and street-level experience train them to do, and they’re right to do it.

          Homosexuality and pedophilia are connected:

          If the prevalence of homosexuality in the Catholic priesthood is the elephant in the sacristy, the homosexuality/pederasty/pedophilia connection in gay culture is the elephant in the bath-house. No amount of denying it’s there is going to make the beast go away.

          They hate us for our freedom:

          Al-Qaeda would not hate us any less; it is not, at bottom, U.S. policy that enrages them, it is the fact of our wealth and freedom and refusal to submit to the One True Way of Allah.

          Muslims are barbarians that need to be civilized by force to prevent the white genocide:

          If there’s no way short of straight-up imperialism and nation-building all over the Islamic world to prevent a holocaust on American or European soil that would make 9/11 look like a garden party, then that’s what we’re going to have to do – civilize the barbarians at the point of a gun.

          Nuking civilians is good actually:

          The U.S. burned essentially every major Japanese city except Kyoto to the ground with incendiaries during World War Two and then atom-bombed two of them. This seemed to help.

          Deliberate cultural genocide is what we need:

          How dare I argue that the U.S. has the right to commit deliberate cultural genocide?

          There’s a big hole in the ground in Manhattan. That’s my argument.

          • steeznson@lemmy.world
            3·
            3 months ago

            Those quotes are heinous and I agree he sounds like a piece of shit. It’s also true that the book he wrote is worth reading.

            I still read HP Lovecraft too even though he was an irredeemable racist POS.