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Computing History & Culture

Hacker culture & free software

Hacker culture & free software sits within Computing History & Culture. Treat computing as a history of people and institutions as well as machines and software. This selection contains 58 catalog videos from 53 distinct channels. The examples below offer specific entry points into the subject, with their own vocabulary and scope, rather than a prescribed sequence of lessons.

Recurring catalog topics include open source, free software, copyright, eben moglen, jason scott and hacker culture. These tags describe overlapping directions within the collection; an individual video may connect several of them. Recorded formats include comedy, commentary, demo, documentary, explainer, interview, lecture, music, other and talk. Use those differences to choose between approaches to the subject and to compare how different contributors frame related questions.

“Project Code Rush - The Beginnings of Netscape / Mozilla Documentary”, listed under The Documentary Network, is cataloged as documentary. Code Rush is a one-hour documentary following Netscape engineers in Silicon Valley through the company's last year as an independent firm. It covers the Mozilla open-source announcement, the frantic push to ready…

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