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| http://www.troubleshooters.com/tpromag/199903/199903.htm#LinuxLog Linux Log, March 1999. This article describes the motivation for making my first free software project, UMENU, as "anger", and goes on to further describe the motivation as proving a political point. In other articles I've ascribed the motivation to "looking kewl". Clearly at this point I had no idea what free software was, other than the definition in the license. |
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| http://www.troubleshooters.com/tpromag/200110/200110.htm#_linuxlog October 2001 Linux Log: Open Source as Consumer Revolt. This article demonstrates through metaphor that Microsoft's actions were exactly what propelled free software from an underground movement in a few tech colleges back east to the tool running the Internet and many businesses. |
| http://www.troubleshooters.com/tpromag/200201/200201.htm#_linuxlog January 2002 Linux Log: The Natural Resource View of Open Source Profit. Here I restated my understanding of Jon "maddog" Hall's Value Added model, framing it in terms of scarcity and abundance, and framing the "business model" as "make money by using free software, not by trying to sell it!" This article also addresses long term prospects of a "product that can't be sold." |
| http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/200310/200310.htm October 2003 Linux Productivity Magazine: A Free Software Project Moves On. This magazine issue describes the first two years of the VimOutliner project, from the genesis of the itch that produced it, to the handing off of the project from the project's originator to his successor. More importantly, it shows the motivations and actions of all concerned, giving an insight into the philosophy of free software. |