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Submitted by Mike on Sat, 03/15/2008 - 10:33am.
Maybe a discussion of the Linux software model with benign dictator and operating license would give us some ideas about how this community should work? We are not going to be bound by a contract that says we can't market our ideas in the way that the Linux kernel is a commons, but maybe our social contract, the ethics of citizen journalism and basic blogging ethics are analogous?
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Interesting....
Submitted by security_six on Sat, 03/15/2008 - 5:58pm.As I sit here on a open source driven machine...
So correct me if I am wrong here.
We have Rick analogous to Linus. Linus created a wonderful operating system and laid down some minimal rules on what Linux is, how Linux works, and how it must be distributed to be called Linux. In turn the community has created flavors that do everything from run mobile phones to massive server farms. You can get Linux that is easy to install, and you can get wicked difficult to use Linux depending on the level of control you seek.
On Olyblog within the confines of the social contract and the goal of hyper local content a lot of different things fit. I talk about guns, someone else talks about eating plants, and a third shows pictures of birds taken in a local park. Within the confines of certain parameters they are all Olyblog. In turn the users interact with the system in a manner defined by the evolving social contract to ensure that while the sum total of "Olyblog" is many differing pieces for different ends and uses, they are all still "Olyblog" Gentoo Linux is NOT Puppydog Linux, nor is security_six Mike, yet both are still part of the same overriding community.
In turn the community can dictate certain changes and modifications within the broad confines of the license/social contract.
Did I miss anything?
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