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Understanding Open Source Principles

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 discusses threats posed by digital rights management such as security risks, user lock-in, and invasion of privacy. The document outlines 10 criteria that define open source software, including free redistribution, access to source code, and no discrimination of users or fields. It notes that most software is stolen rather than paid for. Overall, the document presents both benefits and defining principles of open source software.

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Understanding Open Source Principles

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 discusses threats posed by digital rights management such as security risks, user lock-in, and invasion of privacy. The document outlines 10 criteria that define open source software, including free redistribution, access to source code, and no discrimination of users or fields. It notes that most software is stolen rather than paid for. Overall, the document presents both benefits and defining principles of open source software.

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a primer on

open source
todd lyons
[Link]
[Link]
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 security
User
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]
[Link]

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