There is nothing so beautiful and scary and promising as starting something new, and here it happens again. Blogging this time to create an interesting blogosphere around Open Source and why it should exist and must exist to live in a better world.

It will not surprise you that i believe that the Free, Unbound and Open Source way is a better way. And i believe this in a very non-technical way. Although i love the beauty of programming and the elegance of some of my beloved free programs this is about Freedom, Democracy and the duty and right to share. And about freedom in a positive way: the freedom to create, share and flourish. Not in the liberal 'negative' sense that people are not allowed to hinder me.

A lot of my thinking about this is sharpened by a book from the Dutch philosopher Hans Achterhuis that i can recommend for a read (still) : The Realm of Scarcity. From Thomas Hobbes to Michel Foucault (1988). It introduces thinking about scarcity and how scarcity defines the modern world and it shows that scarcity is created and how it touches power and violence. And as such it touches very much the struggle between free software and (scarce) proprietary software and hot stuff like ACTA: the new means to create scarcity in accessing information: http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number8.4/leaked-acta-confirms-suspicions.

Note that i am involved here partly as a board member in the Dutch Linux User Group NLLGG: http://www.nllgg.nl but i am working as a logistic expert with Enterprise resource Systems. So probably i will also blog about logistics and Linux. But i hope it will be interesting anyway for you.

Peter