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#+title: Egypt's revolution from a Free Software development perspective

* Egypt's revolution from a Free Software development perspective


Egypt's revolution from a Free Software development perpective

Release Early, Release Often

Initiative Given a large enough pool of co-developers, any difficult
problem will be seen as obvious by someone, and solved.

Your co-developers (beta-testers) are your most valuable resource.

The other guerrilla networks in the bazaar are your most valuable
allies. They will innovate on your plans, swarm on weaknesses you
identify, and protect you by creating system noise. Recognize good ideas
from your co-developers. Simple attacks that have immediate and
far-reaching impact should be adopted. loose and nonhierarchical
networks to pursue a common vision they exchange information and work
collaboratively on tasks of mutual interest.

just as in the software community, information technology and the
Internet play a pivotal role in bringing insurgents together. reliance
on IT also enables open-source groups to identify and respond to
problems much more rapidly than a more structured, top-down entity can

The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Linux is subversive,” Raymond wrote. ”Who
would have thought even five years ago [1991] that a world-class
operating system could coalesce as if by magic out of part-time hacking
by several thousand developers scattered all over the planet, connected
only by the tenuous strands of the Internet? Proprietary, Open Source or
Free Software Graffitti tools Protest guides they tend to be well
educated, media-savvy, and comfortable operating in a globalized,
high-tech world. they don't aim to invade, hold, or govern territory,
but rather to exert political influence by exhausting an adversary's
capacity to fight back. Their preferred method of attack is to disrupt
infrastructure, whether physical, financial, or political [see photos,
”World at War”]. ”System disruption is going to be the main thrust of
warfare for quite a long time,” Robb predicts. Wiki-revolution
http://p2pfoundation.net/Open_Source_Warfare
http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/security/opensource-warfare/0

