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The Planet of Free Knowledge

Volker Grassmuck 01.06.2004

The future of the digital commons will be discussed during the conference Wizards of OS 3

The Wizards of OS 3 (10-12 June 2004, Berliner Congress Center) is bringing together an interdisciplinary group of leading scholars and practitioners from the planet of free knowledge. This planet is bustling with activity. Everywhere there are people creating and exchanging information, working together to build a solid foundation of free technology and to erect cathedrals of wisdom -- by all and for all -- such as Wikipedia. Some are labouring to bring science back to its philosophical foundations: an unencumbered exchange of ideas and the freedom essential for research and innovation.

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The Online Library of Alexandria

Stefan Krempl 01.06.2004

Interview with Jimmy Wales, co-founder of the ever-growing online encyclopedia Wikipedia

Open Content -- the effort of the Online Community to produce freely available editorial essays, articles, and other forms of writings -- has become a major success in the realm of Open Source. Pioneer is the Web based encyclopedia Wikipedia which is supposed reach another milestone of 300.000 articles soon. The open content forerunner is giving commercial encyclopedias like Britannica or Encarta a hard time, since they are loosing customers quickly now.