2000-2004 - GNU/Linux Milestone on the Way to the GPL Society - Stefan Merten de Oekonux
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GNU/Linux - Milestone on the Way to the GPL Society
(2) Stefan Merten <<a href="mailto:smerten@oekonux.de">smerten@oekonux.de>
GNU/Linux - Milestone on the Way to the GPL Society
Paper of the talk at the LinuxTag '00 in Stuttgart, 2000-06-29 -- 2000-07-02
The most recent version is always available from http://www.opentheory.org/gplsociety/
Translation into English done by Graham Seaman, Thomas U. Grüttmüller and Stefan Merten
1. init 1: About This Contribution
1.1. Categorization
(9) This contribution, entitled "GNU/Linux - Milestone on the Way to the GPL Society" is intended to give an overview of work in progress. Some of its content has been discussed in the Oekonux project since it was founded in the middle of 1999. The topics discussed in the project are almost the same as the topics covered in this work. The core of the project is a mailing list, archived on a web-site. The FAQ is especially useful, as it summarizes the debate on the mailing list. In order to honor the work of the people who have contributed some thoughts on the mailing list, and in order to actively respect the spirit of Open Source, a list of their email addresses is included here:
(10) andersenATexozet.com Annette.SchlemmATt-online.de B.BinderATDKFZ-Heidelberg.de benniAThera.rbi.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de Bettina.BerendtATeducat.hu-berlin.de crATiac-research.ch E.KowallikATtu-bs.de erwinAThermes.zsi.at f.nahradaATmagnet.at Frank.OppenheimerATInformatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE h0724elwATrz.hu-berlin.de henrik.motakefATruhr-uni-bochum.de holgerATavendo.de ingoATxhomie.de ingohATschwaben.de j.jaegerATjpberlin.de kritinfAThotmail.com lagemannATtelelogic.de lorenz.glatzATblackbox.net lydiaATzedat.fu-berlin.de mickleiATfokus.gmd.de nussiniATzedat.fu-berlin.de ohilATtequila.in-berlin.de pitATicf.de rainer15ATngi.de rwfischbachAThotmail.com schillingATcontext-net.de sloymentATgmx.net smertenATdialup.nacamar.de spindlerATunix-ag.uni-kl.de ss5ATophon.sax.de stefan.meretzAThbv.org steffiATnef.wh.uni-dortmund.de Thomas.KalkaATgmx.de
(11) The essay begins with a brief discussion of the symptoms of crisis in our current societies1. A second part will point out what is so special about GNU/Linux2. The final section casts an utopian eye on a GPL society, in which important principles of GNU/Linux-development have achieved relevance on a social scale.
(12) By the way, the init number in the section titles is a common nomenclature under Unix for the so-called run levels. These describe the state of the system in the following way:
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