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OSCON, Pt. 2.1: Participate 08 (Sponsored By ... Microsoft?)
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| Let's rewind a bit. My Monday afternoon at OSCON 2008 was taken up
| by "Participate 08", a Microsoft-sponsored discussion panel chaired by a
| whole panopoly of folks -- including, yes, an open source liaison from
| Microsoft. The whole thing was neither a "corporate apologia" (as one wag put
| it from the audience) nor a pile-on where Microsoft got the worst of it.
| Their approach was only one of a diversity of perspectives, and sometimes not
| even the most eyebrow-raising.
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/07/oscon_pt_21_par.html
Panel discusses openness at OSCON
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| Interestingly enough, the topic Lakhani predicted would elicit the most
| debate -- intellectual property -- provided well-balanced, reasoned
| discussion.
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| All panelists agreed that IP was important in open source software. As
| Randall pointed out, if the framework of software licensing created to serve
| the proprietary software industry did not exist, then the GPL would not exist
| either. O'Mahony added that many nonprofit entities use IP law to accumulate,
| integrate, and protect information that is vital for future development.
|
| Urlocker described MySQL's frustration with software patents, including
| waffling on behalf of hybrid proprietary/open source companies, and fear on
| the part of pure open source organizations that lacked the resources to wage
| a legal fight over software patents.
|
| Wilbanks lamented use of the blanket term "intellectual property" to conflate
| copyright, patent, trademark, and trade secret law -- concepts that have
| little to do with one another. Copyright law is incredibly powerful, written
| to serve publishers, and hinges on one fundamental: the right to sue someone
| else. Under these circumstances, he said, "we're boned." In the future, he
| hoped, open source can make better use of trademark concepts like branding --
| where the fundamental issue is the right to associate your work with
| something valuable. When the desire to claim association with a brand
| like "open source" is of bigger concern than the desire to sue, the
| conditions will be right for open source to thrive.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/142624
Microsoft at OSCON
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| One skeptic remarked to me after the panel session that for Microsoft this is
| just a "photo op." That is, it's more about the appearances than anything
| else. I'm not sure whether that's the case or not, but it's still a question
| in many people's minds. And as Brad Kuhn of the Software Freedom Law Center
| pointed out, many people still remember when Microsoft was trying to kill
| open source.
|
| The irony of all this is that I think Microsoft is at risk of missing out on
| the next generation of developers. What's in use at the hot startups these
| days? Hint: it's not about VB, C# and .Net. Even startups by ex-Microsoft
| folks at companies like iLike are using the LAMP stack. I think for a lot of
| developers, Microsoft is less and less relevant. Which is a shame.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2008/07/microsoft_at_os.html
More erosion of trust in OSCON and O'Reilly.
Related (last year):
My Tongue-Lashing from Eben Moglen
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| He made a strong statement about why the Free Software Foundation ultimately
| chose not to close the "SaaS loophole" in GPLv3...
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http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/08/my_tonguelashin.html
Open Source and Web 2.0
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| Moglen came out swinging, tossing out verbal jabs at the notion of Web 2.0
| and the apolitical notions of open source. Moglen asserted that he was being
| grumpy this morning because certain people had left the free software
| movement early to make money and left the free software folks to do all of
| the heavy lifting.
|
| [...]
|
| Moglen emphasized that Web 2.0 is nothing new under the sun, that the
| questions that O'Reilly was posing were coming up 10 years ago, and that the
| GPL v2 gave people like O'Reilly enough time, 10 years, to go off and make
| their millions and enjoy the fruits of free software's labors. And, Moglen
| added, the FSF, by releasing the GPL v3, just gave software vendors another
| 10 years to grow up and figure out what was really important and get freedom
| back into the conversation.
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http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/archives/070724-115717.html
GPL author: Google must share code
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| Companies like Google that build their business on software such as
| Linux have a moral imperative to contribute back to the free
| software community, a prominent open source advocate said Tuesday.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/052307-gpl-author-google-must-share.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
http://tinyurl.com/2x5dvf
Pendulum has swung in the open source debate
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| Once upon a time, the term "open source" was coined to save the free-software
| world from itself--or, rather, from the free-software zealots, as you can
| read on the Open Source Initiative's Web site.
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| Today, I can't help but feel that the pendulum has swung in the opposite
| direction, where we're so self-satisfied with the money we're making off open
| source that we have neglected the essential freedoms that make open-source
| profit possible.
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9752966-7.html
Open Source is no Web 2.0
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| It is time we stop the term open source from getting hijacked. I recently
| wrote about how tech media doesn’t get open source. The events in the last
| week or so have confirmed my thesis further.
|
| [...]
|
| It is time for saner elements in the open source world to wake up and stop
| the abuse of the term open source by the tech media and companies like
| Microsoft. If we don’t do it now, the only other alternative is the free
| software movement and the business community may not be able to leverage the
| freedom offered by the free software then.
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http://www.krishworld.com/blog/open-source/open-source-is-no-web-20
Cries for help go out as open source mogul's radar breaks
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| That very speech served as O'Reilly's attempt to make up for his evisceration
| as the hands of Free Software Foundation attorney Eben Moglen. One day
| earlier, Moglen charged O'Reilly with wasting too much time on hem lines,
| haircuts and the latest fluffy Web 2.0 start-up that looks like it might be
| acquired for a ridiculous amount of cash. O'Reilly had no counter on the
| actual day of Moglen's attack, but thought about the issues overnight.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/28/oscon_oreilly_radar/
Eben Moglen challenges Tim O'Reilly to "join the conversation"
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| At the O'Reilly Open Source Convention today, Software Freedom Law Center
| director Eben Moglen threw down the gauntlet to O'Reilly founder and CEO Tim
| O'Reilly. Saying that O'Reilly had spent 10 years making money and building
| the O'Reilly name, Moglen invited O'Reilly to stop being "frivolous" and to
| join the conversation about software freedom.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/118201
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