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Open Source and Sustainability
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| I won't type in the whole chapter (too lazy), but I will say that he goes on
| for four pages talking about how open source makes it possible for small
| people to do powerful things, and how, as it inevitably gets better through
| user-driven innovation, it is the model of a sustainable system. (He even
| quotes from CATB and explains how he, as a biodiesel farmer and producer, has
| seen the open source effect in action, applied it to his own way of working,
| and has profited from it.)
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http://opensource.org/node/342
Judging open source innovation with Red Hat
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| In the creativity category IBM and Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems won
| for a system they built for the U.S. Navy. Yup Linux is on U.S Naval Warships
| defending the free world and American interests. The system that Red Hat fits
| into there (again something that required all kinds of interesting work) is
| the Zumwalt Total Ship Computing Environment (TSCE).
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http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2008/06/judging-open-source-innovation.html
Recent:
If Intellectual Property Is Neither Intellectual, Nor Property, What Is It?
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| The main reason why I have trouble with the "property" part isn't just the
| fact that it leads people to try to pretend it's just like tangible property,
| but because it automatically biases how people think about the concept.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20080306/003240458.shtml
"Intellectual property" is a silly euphemism
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| Once the ideas have escaped there's no getting them back ...
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| "Intellectual property" is one of those ideologically loaded terms that
| can cause an argument just by being uttered. The term wasn't in
| widespread use until the 1960s, when it was adopted by the World
| Intellectual Property Organization, a trade body that later attained
| exalted status as a UN agency.
|
| WIPO's case for using the term is easy to understand: people who've "had
| their property stolen" are a lot more sympathetic in the public
| imagination than "industrial entities who've had the contours of their
| regulatory monopolies violated", the latter being the more common way of
| talking about infringement until the ascendancy of "intellectual
| property" as a term of art.
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| Does it matter what we call it? Property, after all, is a useful, well-
| understood concept in law and custom, the kind of thing that a punter can
| get his head around without too much thinking.
|
| That's entirely true - and it's exactly why the phrase "intellectual
| property" is, at root, a dangerous euphemism that leads us to all sorts
| of faulty reasoning about knowledge. Faulty ideas about knowledge are
| troublesome at the best of times, but they're deadly to any country
| trying to make a transition to a "knowledge economy".
|
| Fundamentally, the stuff we call "intellectual property" is just
| knowledge - ideas, words, tunes, blueprints, identifiers, secrets,
| databases. This stuff is similar to property in some ways: it can be
| valuable, and sometimes you need to invest a lot of money and labour into
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/feb/21/intellectual.property
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