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    Type of resources
    Video
    Education level(s)
    College / Upper Division (Undergraduates), Graduate / Professional
    Primary user(s)
    Student, Teacher
    Subject area(s)
    Career and Technical Education
    Language(s)
    English
    Cluster
    Replication Crisis and Credibility Revolution
    Last updated
    12 January 2025
    Video

    Open-Source Exploitation - David Whitney - NDC London 2024

    By David Whitney, NDC

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    Level College / Upper Division (Undergraduates), Graduate / Professional · For Student, Teacher · Language English

    Abstract

    In this session we’ll do a deep dive into the history of open-source software, it’s ethical issues in the modern, hyper-capitalised development landscape, and how we can survive, as humans in a world where the hobbyist computer clubs of the early microcomputing era founded practices that are being weaponised against the individual in the 2020s.

    A vital, rollercoaster session about something that effects the livelihood of every developer - and is about finding the humanity in the centre of our software.

    Keywords Open-Source · History of Open Source · Ethics