The Age Of Literate Machines: FOSSNUT 2008Q1

Slide 1: T H E · A G E · O F LITERATE MACHINES

Slide 3: Free Software?

Slide 4: Free Software

Slide 7: Free Software

Slide 9: 1. Run 2. Study 3. Modify 4. Share

Slide 10: Open Source = Free Software

Slide 11: Open Source Isn't a Bad Term

Slide 12: Why Does Free Software Matter?

Slide 15: Largest Computing Project in History

Slide 16: $

Slide 19: Vision?

Slide 20: Free Software is a response

Slide 22: ~ 50 000 years ago

Slide 28: Source Code to Society

Slide 34: Burning Scrolls & Burying Confucians

Slide 37: Language is The Great Tool

Slide 38: Towards Free Speech

Slide 39: The Word was at God

Slide 45: The Knowledge Within the Medium

Slide 46: Freedom Spreads

Slide 49: Burning Scrolls & Burying Confucians

Slide 51: Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers

Slide 52: Stationers Company Monopoly (1556 - 1695) Copyright vested in the printer. Power to seize offending books and to bring the offending author before the authorities.

Slide 53: Statute of Anne Copyright that vests in the author - 14 years for new works and 21 years for existing work. Required submission of multiple copies to state libraries. 53

Slide 54: A Blossoming of Freedoms

Slide 57: Constitution of Norway Article 100: There shall be freedom of expression. ... 57

Slide 58: State-subsidized Free Speech

Slide 59: Free Speech in the Electro-Mechanical Revolution

Slide 60: 1438 Printing 1/1000¢

Slide 61: 1609 Newspaper 1/10 000¢

Slide 62: 1838 Telegraph 10¢

Slide 63: 1848 Telephone 1/100¢

Slide 64: 1877 Phonograph 1/10¢

Slide 65: 1896 Radio 1/1 000 000¢

Slide 66: 1898 Magnetic Recording 1/10¢

Slide 67: 1927 Television $1/100 000

Slide 68: Radio TV Newspaper Other Print Media

Slide 69: Worshipful Company of Television and Radio Broadcasters

Slide 70: Literate Machines

Slide 80: http://revolution

Slide 81: The Great Obsoleter

Slide 85: Justice Algorithms

Slide 86: Free as in Freedom

Slide 87: Balanced Freedoms smodeerF decnalaB

Slide 88: Build Freedom for the Future

Slide 89: The Mozilla Manifesto http://mozilla.org/about/mozilla-manifesto.html

Slide 90: Robo Habilis

Slide 91: Zak Greant http://zak.greant.com zak@greant.com

Slide 92: From http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Promote_MDC

Slide 93: Public Domain Dedication