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Homesteading the Noosphere

Eric S. Raymond

"Homesteading the Noosphere" is an essay written by Eric S. Raymond about the social workings of open-source software development. It follows his previous piece "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" .

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“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.”

Eric S. Raymond book Homesteading the Noosphere

Homesteading the Noosphere

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