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Re: Eben Moglen's Plone Conference Address
by Steven Osborn on Sunday December 10, 2006 @ 11:21 AM
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I've recently started working for a start-up company. This company is unfortunately neither open-source, nor in the health care spectrum, but I can tell you from experience, if your going to start writing a new application (especially in C/C++) you'll find that a lot of people have already solved most of the problems you are trying to solve, but unless your developing GPL software, many these solutions are not going to be available to you. It has become difficult for smaller software companies to be effective without developing under the GPL.
I would encourage anyone releasing any code, no matter how small to use the GPL over other "less restrictive" license, by doing so your not only giving your code to the community, but you are increasing the pace at which open-source software will become the only cost effective solution for all but the most well funded companies.
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Re: Eben Moglen's Plone Conference Address
by Ignacio H. Valdes, MD, MS on Sunday December 10, 2006 @ 11:27 AM
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- Agree and it is fascinating to watch these dynamics unfold. Eben Moglen's comments are very thoughtful and I think fundamentally correct.
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Re: Eben Moglen's Plone Conference Address
by Ignacio H. Valdes, MD, MS on Sunday December 10, 2006 @ 11:29 AM
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Didn't know that it is Dr. Moglen with a Ph.D in history as well as a JD but it shows in the video:
From: http://www.gnu.org/press/2001-05-04-GPL.txt
'About Eben Moglen:
Eben Moglen holds a PhD. in history and a J.D. from Yale University. Moglen is currently a professor of law and legal history at Columbia University Law School, and serves as general counsel for the Free Software Foundation.'
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Re: Eben Moglen's Plone Conference Address
by Mark Spohr on Sunday December 10, 2006 @ 06:52 PM
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I took an hour this morning listening to this and it was time well spent. This fellow is incredibly astute and articulate.
He gives a "big picture" for free software that is compelling and profound.
To me, the most interesting argument was that he equates software to the "steel" that was crucial to past development and makes the argument that since software has low incremental cost, it has the ability to improve social equity without going to war over redistribution of wealth.
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Posted by Ignacio H. Valdes, MD, MS on Saturday December 09, 2006 @ 09:55 AM
