It has been almost two years since I first began advocating for adapting an Open Source model to the development of Appropriate Technology. Naturally, my ideas did not develop in…
The first advocate of Open Source was none other than the patron saint of neoliberal economics: Adam Smith. Although Smith’s classic The Wealth of Nations has become the de-facto Bible…
While blogging about Open Source AT, Jeff at sustainablog poses an excellent question: “Is this a concept that generally will appeal to the more technically inclined, but leave the rest…
Although Open Source appropriate technology may be a good idea, it faces a number of obstacles to its implementation. First, there is the issue of licensing. How do we license…
In 1985, Richard Stallman published the GNU Emacs License in conjunction with his software package of the same name. Though it received little attention beyond the tight-knit community of computer hackers,…
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