Free Beer is a collection of texts written by speakers at FSCONS 2008 and based on their respective talks. FSCONS is that rare conference that unites both free software and free culture movements.

The list of essays is below.

Amongst those we particularly recommend are:

– Johan Söderberg’s Hackers GNUnited!, an account of hackers as a social movement, reviewed here.

– Smári McCarthy’s The End of (Artificial) Scarcity, which examines abundance economics

– Mike Linksvayer’s Free Culture in Relation to Software Freedom, which is a thorough examination of both the commonalities and differences between free software and free culture, focusing on their different logics, use of licenses, and autonomous but linked development. Definitely a key text for our movement.

* Nikolaj Hald Nielsen: From Consumer to Creator
* Stefan Larsson: The darling conceptions of your time
* Ville Sundell: A utilization of Jabber Instant Messaging
* Henrik Moltke: RMS on FREE BEER (Interview)
* Jeremiah Foster: Creating Debian packages from CPAN
* Rasmus Fleischer: Kopimi
* Victor Stone: Unexpected Collaborations
* Denis Jaromil Rojo: The Wever Birds