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wTuesday, June 08, 2004 The gift economy and free software By: Jem Matzan A "gift economy" is a social system in which status is given by how much one shares or gives to one's community, as opposed to an "exchange economy" where status is given to those who own or control the most stuff. In today's world we're used to the latter economic philosophy, as it has been closely affiliated with the capitalist system since at least the Industrial Revolution and the invention of the corporation. But the Industrial Age is over -- this is the Information Age now, and things are changing. Link from Meshugina Brian posted by GeeWhiz at 6:39 AM wWednesday, March 17, 2004 TCC is going to be a Red Hat Academy posted by GeeWhiz at 7:57 AM wMonday, March 01, 2004 The Evolution of the Unix Time-sharing System* This paper presents a brief history of the early development of the Unix operating system. It concentrates on the evolution of the file system, the process-control mechanism, and the idea of pipelined commands. Some attention is paid to social conditions during the development of the system. posted by GeeWhiz at 7:53 PM wMonday, February 23, 2004 TCC is offering a special PHP & MySQL Course Starting Next Month posted by GeeWhiz at 10:55 AM wSaturday, January 31, 2004 Unix is a Four Letter Word posted by GeeWhiz at 2:40 PM wTuesday, January 27, 2004 Mike Rowe has settled his name dispute over the MikeRoweSoft website with the behemoth from Washington. They've even offered him free training on their products... poor kid. Link from Dan posted by GeeWhiz at 2:00 PM wMonday, January 26, 2004 IBM Pushing Linux to the Desktop posted by GeeWhiz at 5:18 PM