Thursday August 19, 2004 Liberty and Commerce
A holiday snap to say I am back - we took a Dolittle-Planned Break the last 10 days. This photo was taken from Battery Park. I'm sure I'm not the first person to note how the statue and the cranes echo one another, but it made me think of work.
How? It reminded me that liberty is active, not passive. We're liberated to do something, not just released from something. Taking away one person's liberty just to create a trophy for another is the wrong answer. This, for me, is at the heart of thinking about open source, which is about liberty, not licenses. It's one of the paths to software freedom, to the liberty to make one's living through software. As I discussed at OSCON and probably will again this weekend at EuroFOO, there's not just one 'river of freedom', there are several, each flowing through their own communities and landscapes. That's the key thing to remember harmonising the different approaches, such as open standards and open source or Java and open source.
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( Aug 19 2004, 11:38:16 AM PDT )
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