Achieving Impossible Things

Description:

Achieving Impossible Things is an introduction to free culture and commons-based enterprise. It is a book about finding low cost ways to collaborate and make big things happen using examples of major internet institutions. Started as a collection of articles from Free Software Magazine, this book explains how scattered individuals who individually do small things can make large things happen. It is a truly inspiring book about how to start your own internet and free-culture projects.

subjects: Wikipedia,  Free Software,  GNU/Linux,  Project Gutenberg,  Blender,  OLPC,  Sugar Labs,  Creative Commons,  GNU Public License,  GPL,  copyright,  copyleft,  women,  commons-based enterprise,  Free culture,  Open Hardware,  software,  hardware

People: Ada Lovelace (1815-1852),  Bruce Perens (1958-),  Donald Knuth (1938-),  Dave Scott,  Eric Raymond (1957-),  Galileo Galilei (1564-1642),  Grace Hopper (1906-1992),  Greg London,  Ian Murdock,  Lawrence Lessig,  Linus Torvalds (1969-),  Lourens Veen,  Mark Shuttleworth (1973-),  Mary Lou Jepsen,  Matthias Ettrich,  Mitchell Baker,  Rosalind Picard,  Rosario Lufrano,  Ryan Cartwright,  Val Hensen

Times: Twenty-first century