05:13:24 pm, Categories: Computers and Internet, Open Source, 236 words Posted by: Joseph A. di Paolantonio
Copyleft Business Models: Why it’s Good Not to Be Your Competitor’s Free Lunch, Eben Moglen, Columbia University Law School.
Anyone who has heard Eben knows that it's useless to try and capture the nuance and delightfulness of his speech.
The story he's telling of the history of the computer industry and it's evolution out of and back to open source is wondrous.
One point that Eben makes, which touches on an argument a friend and I have been having via email, is how the United States in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries had the problem of attracting people to this land of opportunity, and the impact on Intellectual Property law of today. Quite different from the Immigration laws of the past 50 years, or the debate that's going on in our Congress today.
The source of the strength, and the fundamental model, of the USA century, was that after World War II, the USA built the Interstate Highway system, invested in public medical research facilities, and created a secondary, tertiary and quaternary education system second to none.
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