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Shareware Heroes: The renegades who redefined gaming at the dawn of the internet
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Creative Technologists
Nicole Ripka • 2 cards
Instead of filing for patents, they uploaded the plans for Robohand’s parts to Thingiverse, a site where the crowd shares 3D printing files.
Andrew McAfee, Erik Brynjolfsson • Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future
The Product is the Process: Prototyping Reality with Public Assembly – ZORA ZINE
Guy Mackinnon-Littlezine.zora.co
Linus Torvalds's style of development—release early and often, delegate everything you can, be open to the point of promiscuity—came as a surprise. No quiet, reverent cathedral-building here—rather, the Linux community seemed to resemble a great babbling bazaar of differing agendas and approaches (aptly symbolized by the Linux archive sites, who'd ... See more
Eric Steven Raymond • The Cathedral and the Bazaar
But another turn of the tech cycle would arrive, and as Microsoft grew more powerful, a sect of programmer activists struck back by forming the open-source software movement. As Tim O’Reilly, the tech publishing magnate, described the situation in his 1998 blog post “Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet,” “Despite all Microsoft’s efforts
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