• founded at the end of 2008

• Matt Lee, Rob Myers, Mark Cousens, Liam Smith, Chloe Phillips, Mark Stephenson and Sally Jenkinson.

• a team of volunteers from the free software community

• Free Culture, Free Software, Free Society

• Inspiration (Factory, GNU)

• Problem (non-free software and culture)

• Solution (copyleft, distributed systems)

• Implementation (LAMP, distributed dev.)

• Projects (libre.fm, daisycha.in)

• Implications (forking culture)

Inspiration

0 The freedom to run the program, for any purpose

1 The freedom to study how the program works, and change it to make it do what you wish. access to the source code is a precondition for this.

2 The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor.

3 The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements (and modified versions in general) to the public, so that the whole community benefits. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

The Four Freedoms

The Problem

The Solution

Implementation

Projects

Project started April 1st 2009

August 2009- ten thousand users- ten million scrobbles

December 2009- twenty thousand users- twenty million scrobbles

Implications

CommonsOpenGift economy

“Freedom” of corporations or projects“Freedom” to remove freedom

Individual Freedom

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