What does winning look like?

[reddragdiva]

Freeculture.org asks us to share our vision of the future: what free culture looks like in five years.

Imagine your life after five successful years working on your free culture projects. How is your day-to-day existence different? What does a city look like? How have the lives of your parents and friends changed? What does it feel like to live in a more free culture? Does it smell different? Sound different?

They have a wiki page for the collected results. Let's assume Moore's Law, by the way: you're typing your response on a 32-core Opteron with 16 gigabytes of memory on your lap. And it's not even warm.

(And, for that matter, what do the Wikimedia projects look like in 2012? When did we leave Google in the dust? Do governments cower at our name and public broadcasters release everything under CC by-sa? How did we get there? Show your working.)

Edit: Dammit, the deadline was July 12! Bah. WRITE ONE ANYWAY.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I played with this for a week and decided "fuck it, installing Debian bor the first time ever will be easier". Vista is arcane - I've been using Windows fifteen years and I find it difficult to figure out what I'm doing, so god only knows what a newish user will think.

Interesting to think of it as a sudden upsurge, though; if memory serves, one of the large retailers is now offering preinstalled Ubuntu machines. Definitely promising, if we're using it as an analogy for the future of free content!

[reddragdiva]

Debian's not difficult to install at all, unless the very notion of a character interface is enough to explode your head. Ubuntu is even easier.

[shimgray.livejournal.com]

Install, easy. Beat into being configured properly, a little trickier. (Doable, certainly, but not without a certain level of expertise rather than simple competence). Admittedly, that was on a brand new machine - widescreen and fancy graphics cards are a pain to get right.

But once it's done, I would have no qualms leaving the machine for my grandmother - that level of reliability...