Free software has always been free for the sake of technologists, providing open range for code wranglers and server farmers. Now Extremadura is claiming it for the campesinos. Here, open source isn’t about the process of collaborative development or objections to intellectual property. It’s about power to the people. The LinEx stork is a direct connection to the global economy.
From Bruce Sterling’s article in Wired: Extremadura
Posted by james at December 4, 2003 01:53 AM | TrackBackRegarding the paper (which does amateurly deals with Open Source), I would like to post it somewhere on anize, and of course then it’s free game…
-ajm