Calendars:Networked Media Calendar/Networked Media Calendar/13-11-2012 -Event 3

Free as in Cheese S01E01 Seminar: 16:00- 18:30, episode 2, on the wonders of freedom and openness. (lg project space)

This time we will be watching another doc, "Code Rush," that retells the story of the birth of and death of the Netscape browser and its rebirth as the Mozilla project while Microsoft tried to get rid of its competitor by giving away a free alternative bundled in its OS. This video is a great documentation of the overall transformation of the software culture and its business. If you recall from "Revolution OS," the people from the Open Source Initiative found their initial motivation in this little thing that was happening at Silicon Valley and that would be the first attempt to understand source code as a product. Well this is it! Next to that, in the background of that event, we will see the emergence of a mindset and technology that has grown into the entrepreneurship hacker subculture and paved the way for the so-called open Web.

Just like last time we will try to decode and understand this mess.

First and Second Years welcome. Bring cookies, sofas, balloons, protest signs, whatever.

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