Re: [-empyre-] ? =÷= ?

[Simon Biggs <simon@littlepig.org.uk>]

It was never as cooperative as people would like you to think.


On 22/5/04 8:24 pm, "jon.satrom" <jon@selectall.org> wrote:

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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_project
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> The original announcement [of the GNU project] was followed by
> Stallman's "GNU Manifesto" and other essays that laid out his
> motivations for the GNU project, one of which was to:
> "bring back the cooperative spirit that prevailed in the
> [computing/video/hardware.art] community in earlier days."
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> jon.s
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> On May 21, 2004, at 10:59 PM, Alan Sondheim wrote:
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>> On Fri, 21 May 2004, jon.satrom wrote:
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>>> Alan Sondheim wrote:
>>>> Stahlman has written eloquently on the development and use of the
>>>> term.
>>>> Other than that, I'm not sure how you're using it.
>>> 
>>> are you referring to the use of the term "gnu media" or just "gnu" ?
>>> if gnu media () i invite you to post the txt+link w/in liken
>>> i am interested in stahlman's writings ++ it will create a path to
>>> this
>>> discussion.
>>> 
>>> i threw gnu media in to the [lyrical/emmpyrical] [re/mixtape] to
>>> generate a path to the openness of of the early community.
>>> 
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>> I was referencing 'gnu' - not 'gnu media' - but the term is really I
>> think
>> Stahlman's - he insists for example on Gnu-Linux and so it gets
>> overdetermined - difficult to move elsewhere and for me a bit
>> problematic
>> to do so - I have some of the O'Reilly books here on Peer to Peer, use
>> GNU
>> Window apps a lot etc - alan
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Simon Biggs
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