How educated are you about free culture?

[Zoot7]

1, just for the reason that I've watched the Zeitgeist movie.

[phrostbyte]

4 (and only because it was part of the GPL, which I obviously felt obligated to read). By the way, you forgot Eric Reymand's stuff. You should put in at least the Cathedral and the Bazar, and possibly Hacker FAQ. You might also want to consider Teach yourself to Program in 10 years.

Done. I will look into the others.

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RE: Zeitgeist

The Zeitgeist documentary is the sequel, not the original one. I put it in there because it goes into detail about a "resource based economy", which is loosely associated with free culture. That's also why Age of Spiritual Machines is in there.

[RiceMonster]

I've got 5 of them. 18 points, I think.

19. I read a lot of the GNU philosophy and please don't call it political rubbish as after you've read it it really makes you think about how the world of computer works.

I've read it, and I only partially agree with it.

[alexfish]

I Think My Score is 0

But I do Know this Free Culture

• the freedom to use the work and enjoy the benefits of using it
• the freedom to study the work and to apply knowledge acquired from it
• the freedom to make and redistribute copies, in whole or in part, of the information or expression
• the freedom to make changes and improvements, and to distribute derivative works

• My view is
• All of the above is how All We Got Here today
• Any person or company or whatever . trying to deny any of the above are Two Sandwiches Short of a Picnic
• rest my case ; mi lord
  

[speedwell68]

12

[Hwæt]

Of course this list is far from complete, feel free to add suggestions and point values.

Licenses:

Creative Commons licenses (legal document): 10 points
GNU GPL: 5 points
GNU LGPL: 5 points
GNU AGPL: 5 points
Creative Commons licenses (summaries): 2 points
BSD License: 2 Points
MIT License: 2 Points

Surely licenses deserve points. The GPL is a pain in the *** to read and understand fully, and anyone who has done both deserves credit.

[KeithCu]

25+

That "Software Wars" book should be worth more than 4 points

[del_diablo]

21 points. Mostly from reading of stallman and interisting stuff.

[clanky]

I would say you'd have to read/watch something about free culture. How do you even know what free culture is you never even learned anything about it? Are you just relying on hearsay?

Any reason why I should care? I do not particularly want to be educated about free culture, I just want an operating system that works. Personally I couldn't care less about the political / ethical crap that seems to be doing its best to keep free / open source software in the obscure rut that it is presently in.

If people spent less time writing books and essays about how "Microsoft is evil" and how "the codes should be free, man" and more time doing useful stuff then the whole FOSS movement might advance a bit quicker.

[llawwehttam]

Any reason why I should care? I do not particularly want to be educated about free culture, I just want an operating system that works. Personally I couldn't care less about the political / ethical crap that seems to be doing its best to keep free / open source software in the obscure rut that it is presently in.

If people spent less time writing books and essays about how "Microsoft is evil" and how "the codes should be free, man" and more time doing useful stuff then the whole FOSS movement might advance a bit quicker.

Well that statement just proves you have no idea what the opensource community is about. The Free software Foundation is NOT about 'hating microsoft'.
Maybe if you had read some of those works you would understand this a bit better.

If everyone took the same attitude as you there would never have been such a thing as opensource or free software.