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Quotes from Homesteading the Noosphere — Eric S. Raymond

born 1957 United States

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It is well understood in the community that project owners have a duty to pass projects to competent successors when they are no longer willing or able to invest needed time in development or maintenance work.

Homesteading the Noosphere (1998)

Anybody who has ever owned a dog who barked when strangers came near its owner's property has experienced the essential continuity between animal territoriality and human property. Our domesticated cousins of the wolf are instinctively smarter about this than a good many human political theorists.

Homesteading the Noosphere (1998)

The 'noosphere' of this essay's title is the territory of ideas, the space of all possible thoughts. What we see implied in hacker ownership customs is a Lockean theory of property rights in one subset of the noosphere, the space of all programs. Hence 'homesteading the noosphere', which is what every founder of a new open-source project does.

Homesteading the Noosphere (1998)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Eric S. Raymond (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.