Time for Web 2.0 to be Unleashed with Open Source
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| Web 2.0 companies are largely built upon Open Source software. But how many
| of them do you consider significant contributors to Open Source? In general,
| there is an open ethic, and communities demand (and reward) it. But
| somewhere along the way, the focus shifted to APIs and Open Source wasn't
| rationalized as part of the business model. Some call them Open APIs or Open
| Data, but until there is a legal framework adhered to as community standard
| (word is OSI will work to address this), they are just APIs with unilateral
| rights. And with the focus on APIs, instead of contributing code back to the
| projects you leverage, or contributing your own projects, cooperation has
| been limited (save a handful of great standards efforts like Atom) Business
| models have also been held back by the gradual evolution of Open Source
| licensing, until now.
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http://ross.typepad.com/blog/2007/07/time-for-web-20.html
Related:
Open Source and Web 2.0
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| Moglen came out swinging, tossing out verbal jabs at the notion of Web 2.0
| and the apolitical notions of open source. Moglen asserted that he was being
| grumpy this morning because certain people had left the free software
| movement early to make money and left the free software folks to do all of
| the heavy lifting.
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| Moglen emphasized that Web 2.0 is nothing new under the sun, that the
| questions that O'Reilly was posing were coming up 10 years ago, and that the
| GPL v2 gave people like O'Reilly enough time, 10 years, to go off and make
| their millions and enjoy the fruits of free software's labors. And, Moglen
| added, the FSF, by releasing the GPL v3, just gave software vendors another
| 10 years to grow up and figure out what was really important and get freedom
| back into the conversation.
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http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/archives/070724-115717.html
Cries for help go out as open source mogul's radar breaks
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| That very speech served as O'Reilly's attempt to make up for his evisceration
| as the hands of Free Software Foundation attorney Eben Moglen. One day
| earlier, Moglen charged O'Reilly with wasting too much time on hem lines,
| haircuts and the latest fluffy Web 2.0 start-up that looks like it might be
| acquired for a ridiculous amount of cash. O'Reilly had no counter on the
| actual day of Moglen's attack, but thought about the issues overnight.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/28/oscon_oreilly_radar/
Eben Moglen challenges Tim O'Reilly to "join the conversation"
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| At the O'Reilly Open Source Convention today, Software Freedom Law Center
| director Eben Moglen threw down the gauntlet to O'Reilly founder and CEO Tim
| O'Reilly. Saying that O'Reilly had spent 10 years making money and building
| the O'Reilly name, Moglen invited O'Reilly to stop being "frivolous" and to
| join the conversation about software freedom.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/118201
GPL author: Google must share code
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| Companies like Google that build their business on software such as
| Linux have a moral imperative to contribute back to the free
| software community, a prominent open source advocate said Tuesday.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/052307-gpl-author-google-must-share.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
http://tinyurl.com/2x5dvf
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