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relevant: https://polite.technology/preview https://polite.technology/preview polite.technology is a free text under the CC0 license originally penned by Tom MacWright "This is a book about the social interactions and situations that are the underpinnings of the open source world. It's about how humans collaboratively create software. This isn't a programming handbook or a guide to using GitHub. If that's what you're interested in, there are links in the bibliography to great resources. Specifically this is about creating open source software. Open source software, loosely defined, is software that is free to share. Typically, open source software is released under a license that reverse-engineers copyright in order to protect this right to share, instead of doing copyright's traditional work of restricting sharing. The ramifications of this tweak to copyright are tremendous. Open source software doesn't have to be a closely-guarded secret: instead, it's usually created in public spaces, shared widely, and distributed for free. Since everyone can read the source code and contribute changes back, software projects can become collaborative projects between multiple companies, private individuals, foundations, and even governments, all sharing in the work of creating software and the benefit of having it. The successes of open source software have been world-changing: the Linux operating system runs the majority of the Internet, the git version control system is the basis for GitHub, and thousands of other pieces of open source software make everyday life possible. On a personal level, open source software and the systems of collaboration it comes with have enabled people to work remotely, make friends, and learn about parts of systems that were previously the exclusive domain of experts. But that's the ideal. The everyday work of creating things is difficult and fraught - filled with the same social difficulties as any other job, along with unusual new challenges. How do communities scale when they contain differing opinions and styles? How do decisions get made without formal power structures - or does decision-making require the creation of such structures? What about the way that these projects interact with companies who wield the power of commerce, users who have the power of speech, and developers who may have more technical skill than collaborative ability? ... " read more --> https://polite.technology/preview https://polite.technology/preview