Linux for Theatre Makers: Embodiment and *nix modus operandi
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| What fascinates me is that for a significant amount of us, which is a
| massive majority of world population who actually use computers, do
| not even know there a spectrum of OS choices are even available! Let
| alone about the GNU/Linux or free software foundation (FSF), which
| exists to insist people should have the freedom to choose and modify
| the technology they use in the way they see fit and not be
| restricted by economics or reductive proprietary laws.
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| To have a noticeably wider participation in the new developments in
| language influenced by Linux, is to be fully aware of the current problems
| of this language and convinced of its extreme importance. Ultimately the
| human capacity for reflection, planning and manipulation of our environment
| brings the responsibility of choice, but first and foremost we need to be
| open and inform people there is a choice. Above all, it seems important to
| recognise differences within, as well as beyond the borders of the Linux
| community or people will continue in falling into corporate traps of people
| like Bill Gates' idea of what a personal computer is, and Disney's limiting
| idea of the what constitutes entertainment.
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| Furthermore, when source code is made available I think of it more as
| having reverence for other people's work. To be able to acknowledge, then
| copy that work or code and then try to understand how that person thought
| and felt - but always bringing in my own idiosyncrasies and vision to that,
| in the understanding that all these efforts are related, and have a larger
| common purpose.
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http://www.networkcultures.org/weblog/archives/2007/04/linux_for_theat.html
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