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Open Source

Building in public — code, knowledge, and tools shared freely for anyone to use and improve.

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Books
Book

The Cathedral and the Bazaar — Eric Raymond

The essay that explained open source to the world. How decentralised collaboration beats centralised design.

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Free Culture — Lawrence Lessig

Lessig on how copyright law was rewritten to lock down the commons — and what is lost when culture cannot be remixed. The legal substrate underneath every platform argument since.

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People
Person

Eric Raymond

Open-source advocate whose 1997 essay The Cathedral and the Bazaar gave Netscape the framework to release Mozilla's source code, sparking the dotcom-era open-source wave. Maintainer of the Jargon File since 1990.

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Institutions
Institution

Open Source Initiative

The steward of the open source definition and licences. The governance behind the movement.

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Tools & media
Tool

GitHub

The world's largest open-source platform. Where software is built in public, together.

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Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow. — Eric S. Raymond — The Cathedral and the Bazaar