Tag-arkiv: OSBC 2004

Traditional wisdom: Open source was about license. Open source means OSD-compliant licenses. Paradigm shift. Thomas Kuhn: The structure of scientific revolution. All rules are different. Big change. PC Paradigm shift (hardware). 1981-1982. Commodity hardware with open infrastructure. IBM released standard … Læs resten →

Ray Lane is general partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. The IT industry is at a watershed. The industry is still based on a proprietary, non modular and “not invented here” approach. This must change now. IT industry must … Læs resten →

David Ritter is VP for strategic consulting at Boston Consulting Group. Open source is about passion. How to unleash the passion of open source in a traditional organizational setting? IBM and viral marketing was until Linux an oxymoron. [Story about … Læs resten →

CEOs from Sleepycat, TrollTech, MySQL and JBoss. Legally and technically you can also go from open source license to dual licensing. In open source projects where lot of contributors have copyright to their individual contribution, all these have to accept … Læs resten →

Not use the term viral license for the GPL rather “reciprocal” license. I give you something, now you have to give me something back. Copyleft or forced sharing is a key force in the relative success of Linux as opposed … Læs resten →

Panel on Detailed Analysis of the GPL and open source licensing Copyleft. To understand the copyleft provision of the GPL you have to listen to the open source community and industry. Free Software Foundation is the author of the GPL … Læs resten →

As ALWAYS an extremely professional and engaging presentation by prof. Lessig. He got a huge well-deserved applause from the audience! The notes are very fragmented, as it is difficult to concentrate on taking notes, when he is doing his presentation. … Læs resten →