Foreword
by Lawrence Lessig[†]
[†] Professor of Law, Stanford Law School, and author of Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (Basic Books, 2000); The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World (Vintage Books, 2002); Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity (Penguin Press, 2004).
Open source resources are completely common within our society. Yet open source and free software remain a mystery. Science, public highways, city parks, language—these are at the core of any free society. Commerce gets built upon them. Culture flourishes through them. Yet the same ideas applied to software puzzle many people. Language can be free, and the results of science open to all, yet to many, ...
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