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title: "The Arab Spring from a Free Software development perpective"
date: 2004-01-01T00:00:00-00:00
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* 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 
