Thursday July 27, 2006 OSCON Keynote
Just got off stage at OSCON, where I broke the habit of a lifetime and delivered a speech without slides (you can read it if you want). It was a strange feeling to focus just on the words. To summarise the points, I said software freedom is promoted by the resolution of five koans:
- Altruism Without Sacrifice
- Licensing Without Lawyers
- Community Without Controlling
- Lock-in is Lock-Out
- Staying Because of the Freedom to Leave
I called for definitions for Governance and Standards to help us know our freedoms are being protected as we move forward. I asserted that in addition to the "freedom to tinker" (licensing that allows any use of the common source a community stewards) we need the "freedom to participate" (community governance that ensures freedom and not control by any particular interest group or company) and the "freedom to leave" (data openness that promotes substitutability). Familiar themes if you've heard me before, but still important issues.
Posted by webmink
( Jul 27 2006, 10:07:03 AM PDT )
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