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Open Source: A Comprehensive Primer

This document provides an introduction to open source software. It begins with a continuum ranking influential figures in technology from "pretty cool" to "über cool". It then outlines some issues with digital rights management and enforcement. Next, it lists 10 criteria that define open source software. The document concludes by questioning whether software developers deserve to be paid for their work.

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Open Source: A Comprehensive Primer

This document provides an introduction to open source software. It begins with a continuum ranking influential figures in technology from "pretty cool" to "über cool". It then outlines some issues with digital rights management and enforcement. Next, it lists 10 criteria that define open source software. The document concludes by questioning whether software developers deserve to be paid for their work.

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a primer on

open source
todd lyons
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artists
writers
musicians
software developers
continuum of cool
pretty damned cool seriously cool über cool

bill gates steve wozniak richard m. stallman

paul allen ken thompson miguel de icaza

bill budge bill joy linus torvalds

bill atkinson alan cox tim berners-lee

ward christensen matthias ettrich ward cunningham

marc andreessen marc ewing


[insert your name
eric bina ian murdock here?]
Enforcing Digital Restrictions Management (DRM)

Threatening
user
User
security Lock-In
Abusing Monopoly
standards behaviour

Poisoning
Invading
Education
privacy
Open Source
means...

#1. Free Redistribution


#2. Source Code
#3. Derived Works
#4. Integrity of The Author's Source Code
#5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups
#6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
#7. Distribution of License
#8. License Must Not Be Specific to a Product
#9. License Must Not Restrict Other Software
#10. License Must Be Technology-Neutral
...Most of you steal your
software.

Hardware must be paid for,


but software is something to
share.

Who cares if the people who


worked on it get paid?

- Bill
Gates
cloud by [Link]
a primer on
open source
todd lyons
todd (at) toddlyons (dot) ca

[Link]
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