Other works related to the TUNES project

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Computer philosophy

• The Principia Cybernetica Project is a project to describe the foundation of Cybernetics, that is, the philosophy of information.
• "As we may think", Vannevar Bush's 1945 vision about what computers should become.
• the League for Programming Freedom and the Electronic Frontier Foundation are non-profit organization for electronic liberties.
• Ted Nelson's Xanadu is a commercial dream project for a world-wide unified electronic library.
  • Official site: xanadu.net
  • Now became free software udunax
  • Xanadu has an Australian home
  • It is also critiqued by the Electronic Labyrinth
  • Xanadu failed, and was vanquished by the WWW, because it lost all its time trying to adapt technology to intellectual property law, instead of developing the best technology, and letting law adapt to it (by dropping inapplicable intellectual property).
• The FSF's GNU project (also here?) does promote fine-grained information publishing through the only currently known way to provide a fully reflexive software: free software with available source.
  • Here is a page about GNU philosophy
  • Its main FTP repository of available software is mirrored everywhere, with OS-specific sites holding binaries.
• Eric S. Raymond, well known as maintainer of the jargon file, a prolific programmer, and a Linux activist, is a hacker full of interesting resources:
  • His Retrocomputing Museum reminds us the past of computing, so we can better understand the present and future.
  • He wrote a very good article on open free-software development, "the Cathedral and the Bazaar"

More netsurfing

• The TUNES project that hosts this page may interest you, or
• Yahoo, the WWW directory.
• Usenet FAQs

To Do on this page

• Talk about the open development model, as used in Linux.
• GroupLens tries to enhance the usenet with cooperative evaluation of messages; I don't remember if they do evaluation correlated to your own taste (Pattie Maes at MIT used such a technique for music works).
• Do include local comments and digests about every work pointed at here. yuck.
• My (Faré's) own take on Free Software (in french).
• A few pointers on libertarian topics
• Tom Lord's [MIA] ~twaddle (pronounced "twiddle twaddle"). Free Software Digital (online) Magazine, with its original payment system.
• The deadborn SELF-DISCPLINE voluntary programme to enhance Usenet, and similar pledge