OpenSourcePhilosophy:About
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Manuel DeLanda states in the talk Open Source: A Movement in Search of a Philosophy, a paper that he delivered to the Princeton Center for Advanced Study in 2001 ([1]), that while the Open Source movement lacked a robust philosophical foundation, this was irrelevant to the quality of the software produced by the movement. He goes on to say that he would not attempt to create such a philosophy --though he does provide a rather interesting economic model for the grounding for the movement. He suggested that if such a philosophy were to evolve, it should follow a similar path of the software, that is, be the collective product of the users of that philosophy.
With this in mind, I have decided to open this work as a source for the development of an open source philosophy. This website will be open to study, modification, distribution by anyone under the guidelines of the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. This is not about freedom or good philosophy, though I hope that this gesture will actualize these, it is about actualizing this work as a hack, creatively overcoming or circumventing limitations --in this case, my own. It is not meant to be a philosophical grounding for the Open Source movement, but rather, an Open Source philosophy, like a piece of software. This just happens to be the philosophy on which I am working, and its source is open.