Archive Free Software Free Software as a Community of Mutual Aide The Cathedral and the Bizarre
A collection of small drawings with text annotations:
(Image: shelves full of gifts) Free software is like having more gifts than I can even imagine.
(Image: building blocks) Each gift is a building block that I can have fun with.
(Image: me playing) Whee!
(Image: blocks with people in them, labeled “What if?” “I need…” “We did it!”) More than that, each block is a glimpse into someone else’s life.
(Image: blocks glued together) I can combine things with bubblegum and string…
(Image: hand with an outline) … to make something that fits me so well. -(Image: path with notes, with a stick figure in the distance) I try to leave notes along the way.
(Image: gift in outstretched hands) Sometimes I can even make my own gift.
(Image: two gifts on a shelf, with space between them) There’s always space.
(Image: A person picks up a note on a path and saying “Thanks!” There are lots of other paths that split off and explore other interesting Text: places.) Sometimes people find my things helpful…
Image: (me picking up a note further down the path and also saying “Thanks!”) … just as I find other people’s things helpful.
(Image: “Free software” with wiggly lines surrounding it, growing outwards) So, bit by bit, we grow.
