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[FYI] Should Public Policy Support Open Source Software?
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- Subject: [FYI] Should Public Policy Support Open Source Software?
- From: "Ralf Stephan" <ralf@ark.in-berlin.de>
- Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 11:26:53 +0200
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http://www.prospect.org/controversy/open_source/
Controversy
ROUND TWO:
* Eric S. Raymond
"We trust the invisible hand of the market partly because we are the
invisible hand. And most (though not all) of us believe we can punish
Microsoft's misbehavior and hubris more effectively and more ethically
than could be done through government action." [read more]
* Lawrence Lessig (New Particpant)
"I want to ask: Come on, Eric -- do you really think 'free market' is
self-defining or self-generating? Do strong patent rights, for
example, exist in your 'free market'? Are those 20 year monopolies
granted by a government bureaucrat 'property' or 'regulation'?" [read
more]
* Nathan Newman
"We need new paradigms for compensating artists, writers and
programmers. For a radical suggestion, I would note the model of
British libraries where authors are paid a sum by the government every
time a book is borrowed from a library. This could be extended to the
Net with a payment-per-download system from government funds." [read
more]
* Jeff A. Taylor
"It seems to me that with UCITA, big software makers are more worried
about having to support funked up code than taking every bit twiddler
to court." [read more]
* Jonathan Band
"The open-source community, however, will be making a terrible mistake
if it believes that the government has no relevance to its activities.
If it assumes this posture, the proprietary interests will succeed in
convincing Congress to overprotect intellectual property." [read more]
...
ralf
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