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#+title: Egypt's revolution from a Free Software development perspective
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* Egypt's revolution from a Free Software development perspective
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Egypt's revolution from a Free Software development perpective
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Release Early, Release Often
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Initiative Given a large enough pool of co-developers, any difficult
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problem will be seen as obvious by someone, and solved.
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Your co-developers (beta-testers) are your most valuable resource.
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The other guerrilla networks in the bazaar are your most valuable
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allies. They will innovate on your plans, swarm on weaknesses you
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identify, and protect you by creating system noise. Recognize good ideas
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from your co-developers. Simple attacks that have immediate and
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far-reaching impact should be adopted. loose and nonhierarchical
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networks to pursue a common vision they exchange information and work
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collaboratively on tasks of mutual interest.
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just as in the software community, information technology and the
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Internet play a pivotal role in bringing insurgents together. reliance
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on IT also enables open-source groups to identify and respond to
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problems much more rapidly than a more structured, top-down entity can
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The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Linux is subversive,” Raymond wrote. ”Who
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would have thought even five years ago [1991] that a world-class
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operating system could coalesce as if by magic out of part-time hacking
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by several thousand developers scattered all over the planet, connected
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only by the tenuous strands of the Internet? Proprietary, Open Source or
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Free Software Graffitti tools Protest guides they tend to be well
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educated, media-savvy, and comfortable operating in a globalized,
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high-tech world. they don't aim to invade, hold, or govern territory,
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but rather to exert political influence by exhausting an adversary's
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capacity to fight back. Their preferred method of attack is to disrupt
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infrastructure, whether physical, financial, or political [see photos,
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”World at War”]. ”System disruption is going to be the main thrust of
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warfare for quite a long time,” Robb predicts. Wiki-revolution
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http://p2pfoundation.net/Open_Source_Warfare
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http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/security/opensource-warfare/0
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