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[News] [FS] The Story About the Birth of Free Software, Free Content Revolution in the Making

  • Subject: [News] [FS] The Story About the Birth of Free Software, Free Content Revolution in the Making
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 14:42:05 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Roads to the GPL

,----[ Quote ]
| The path to GNU was not smooth. Betrayed by his community, Stallman 
| continued to live and work in his office at MIT, and dedicate his 
| energy, his talents and his considerable stubbornness to reviving the 
| culture, and the impossible dream of making software free.
| 
| As far as the hackers at the AI Lab had been concerned the code they 
| had written had always been free, in the sense that it was in the 
| public domain, but they had had no concept of free software, as it 
| came to be known, because the concept of ownership of software was 
| alien to the culture of the Lab, and if software couldn't be owned, 
| how could it be free?
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http://tuxdeluxe.org/node/211

The same type of idea, backed by the Web's bandwidth, makes peer production an
actual business. 

YouTube signs deal with 20-year-old's dating show

,----[ Quote ]
| There have been a lot of questions about how YouTube would implement this 
| revenue-sharing deal. But Brandon's story seems to show good news. Apparently 
| YouTube's money won't be limited to just the big-media video producers like  
| the major motion picture and television producers.  
| 
| YouTube will also share some of its money with 20-year-olds who have big 
| dreams.
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http://tech.blorge.com/Structure
%20/2007/06/22/youtube-signs-deal-with-20-year-olds-dating-show/

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