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Works about free software. (lemmy.ml)
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I am looking for works about free software or based on this philosophy, there are books like "Free software for a free society" and documentaries like "Linux code", but I would like to know what other works there are related to free software and this philosophy, there are things like snow crash, which talks about the decentralization of the internet from a fictional and futuristic story, these types of works are also valid.

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[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Revolution OS(2001) was maybe the earliest documentary about Free Software.

This was great to view at LinuxConf2001, seeing many of the names you'd only read about previously.

Warning: It interviews various people discussed in this thread, but also contains plenty of Stallman being right.