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A special issue on the open source movement
http://webreview.com/wr/pub/freeware/gnu.html

To learn more about one the oldest institutional centers of 
open source movement visit the website for the "Free Software 
Foundation" at http://www.fsf.org/. 

For a host of interviews with Richard Stallman (MIT professor and 
classmate of Bill Gates) who founded the "Free Software Foundation" 
(partially in reaction to Gates' early resistance to sharing 
software) type Stallman's name into any of the search engines.

For a classic essay about why the internet will transform our 
concept of intellectual property read John Perry Barlow's "Selling 
Wine Without Bottles: The Economy of Mind on the Global Net"  Barlow 
is a former member of the Dead and one of the founding members of the 
Well. 
http://www.eff.org/pub/Publications/John_Perry_Barlow/HTML/idea_e 
cono m y_article.html 

For an excellent book on intellectual property law and the 
construction of the information society read James Boyle's "Shamans, 
Software, and Spleens.

Take care, Charles
Charles Heying, Ph.D.       heyingc at pdx.edu
Urban Studies and Planning
Portland State University
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