I recently wrote an article for the “What’s the Rumpus?” blog on the Open Source Initiative. Here is an excerpt:
I feel pretty strongly about copyright. For me it started because of “free” software. I’m cheap and I don’t like to pay for things if I don’t have to and I was always happy to try out a free piece of software (and open to figuring out how to use a not-so-free piece of software too). This lead me to find open source software, which at first just meant “open source = free” to me. As my understanding of the open source movement grew, so did my opinion on copyright.
You can read the rest at http://whatstherumpuspodcast.com/2010/06/30/open-source-ftw/