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Should Public Policy Support Open Source Software?

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] ...

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