Cost of Freedom
  • Announcement
  • Preface: the Voices of Free culture
  • Introduction
  • Collective Memory
    • The Uncommon Creativity of Bassel Khartabil
    • Bassel, and My Freedom
    • About Bassel
    • #NEWPALMYRA and the Free Bassel Campaign
    • Palmyra 3D, Premonition Vision Of Bassel
    • Rebuild Asad Al-Lat
    • Supporting Bassel
    • What Does Freedom Mean to You, Mr. Government?
    • Bassel K
    • My Friend is Not Free
    • Liberté
    • Free Bassel
  • Opening:Freedom
    • Keeping Promises
    • The Shit of Freedom
    • “Freedom To” vs. ”Freedom From”
    • Free Culture in an Expensive World
    • What is Open?
    • The Open World
    • Costs of Openness
    • My Brain on Freedom
    • Too Poor Not to Care
    • Inside or Outside the Movement
    • Freedom as a Commodity
    • Free as in Commons
  • Architectonics Of Power
    • Hacking the Contradictions
    • Time to Wake Up
    • The Cost of Internet Freedom
    • Why I Choose Privacy
    • Why I Choose Copyright
    • Why I Refused My Proprietary Self
    • Image, Identity, Attribution, Authorship
    • The Burden of Journalism
    • Architecture = Power
    • From Outer Space
    • Free Software Economics
    • Beyond Capitalism
  • Affordances
    • Queering
    • Nomadic Family
    • Self-Sufficiency
    • Collective Validation
    • Transdisciplinarity
    • Resilient Networks
    • Reconciliation
  • Epilogue
    • Internal Freedom
    • Love Letter To Computers
    • Towards a possible manifesto; proposing Arabfuturism(s)
    • The Cost of Future Tense
    • Andromeda Report – Gliese 832 C Expedition
  • Appendix
    • Call for Participation
    • Attributions
    • Online Resources
    • License
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What is Open?

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After looking at “Open is not a License”, I decided to take a look at some of the definitions of the noun “open” in the dictionary, and was inspired to write a short poem around what “open” might mean to people. This poem is dedicated to my own poetry inspiration, my father Don Goodman, who passed away in March 2015 at the age of 75.

What is open? Is it a gap or a space? Is it something in public? Or a practice we chase?

Open is unenclosed It is an expanse Did we get here by planning? Or merely by chance?

Open is an opportunity A chance to broaden the mind Free tools and resources To benefit all of mankind

Open is an aperture Something you look through Access for all Not just the few

Open is a cavern A vast empty space A new way of working Falling into place

Open is a competition That anyone can enter A growing global movement With sharing at its centre

Richard Goodman