Why we need to protect our public resources from private encroachment
A brilliant essay on the Boston Review covering the philosophy of the commons, and every aspect of it from the air we breathe to the GNU Project.
References:
http://bostonreview.mit.edu/BR27.3/bollier.html
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/03/0359259&mode=thread&tid=99