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Linux Magazine | Spring 1999 | FEATURES | The Linux Interview

“Torvalds: I think that’s a great advantage. There are a lot of people who own copyrights on their own drivers or file systems. I happen to be the main copyright owner and I am a copyright holder on a lot of other people’s code too. It’s a double-bind situation. Say I wanted to be the next Bill Gates, and I thought the way to become the next Bill Gates would be to say, “Linux 2.2 may be out, but I am working on Linux 3.0, and by the way it will cost you $150.” I can’t do that, because I’m not the only copyright holder. And no one else can do it either. The only way to do it would be to get everyone with their hands in the kernel to agree, and that’s not going to happen. This actually makes some commercial companies happier about Linux because they know that I can’t be a competitor to them.”

This is social ownership by those who produce. This has political/social importance of a major kind – or am I being too romantic?

Appendix I: Production, Consumption, Distribution, Exchange

And is the Iliad possible at all when the printing press and even printing machines exist? Is it not inevitable that with the emergence of the press bar the singing and the telling and the muse cease, that is the conditions necessary for epic poetry disappear?

Marx on art and rel to technology and society. Of course the possibilities of new forms also arise and he did not know the notion that new media transforms the old… people can still make their Illiad thier oral history in a new way… he net is more oral some have said. Who?

Myths Over Miami Miami
New Times | miaminewtimes.com | News : Feature

“Captured on South Beach, Satan later escaped. His demons and the horrible Bloody Mary are now killing people. God has fled. Avenging angels hide out in the Everglades. And other tales from children in Dade’s homeless shelters.”

BY LYNDA EDWARDS

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“Englebart’s most famous invention is the computer mouse, also developed in the 1960s, but not used commercially until the 1980s. Like Vannevar Bush and J.C.R. Licklider, Englebart wanted to use technology to augment human intellect.”

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“In the spirit of Engelbart’s lifelong mode of working ever so fruitfully, keywords here remain pragmatic, experiential, evolutionary.”

Linked to Englepart in the previous post as I had an inkling of the depth of his work – see the idea of open hypertext at work here, and the notion of augmenting intelligence. Of course it is patially implemented here too with the “permanent link” on each item. Blogs have that! Which is an easily overlooked factor in their value. Interesting site, on the edge.

In the bootstrapping process does pragmatic come before soulful or is it the other way around? Anyway, experiential, evolutionary resonate well with me.

O’Reilly Network: Jeff Bezos’ open letter on used book sales [April 21, 2002]

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