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Hall On Worldwide Open Source Movement

Posted by simoniker on from the its-a-small-world-after-all dept.

adamsmith_uk writes "There's an article up on ZDNet summarizing an interesting speech from Jon "Maddog" Hall about non-US open-source, as well as protecting open-source from 'looters' - well worth a read: 'The open-source development community is an international treasure and should be protected as such, said veteran Linux advocate Jon "Maddog" Hall, in a talk in Birmingham, UK, that emphasized the role of open-source software outside the United States.'"

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  1. Analogy to Iraq treasures... by LinuxParanoid · · Score: 1, Redundant

    The analogy to Iraqi stolen treasures may be misplaced. While initially there were reports that thousands, or, as Maddog says, "a lot of them were removed from the world," later reports in the NY Times and Wall Street Journal put the number of verified pieces missing at 25 in one piece I read and 33 in another.

    It turns out that the museum staff stored hundreds and thousands of pieces in their homes, and more valuable pieces had been stored in bank vaults since the first Gulf War. I don't have the Times/WSJ links, but a quick google search turned up this article and this article confirming those basic findings. The later article does mention larger numbers for "minor" pieces, whatever that means.

    (On second thought, maybe the analogy holds: lots of sound and fury about stolen IP, followed by findings that very little was taken...)

    --LP

  2. Re:Since he compares the SCO suit ... by DogIsMyCoprocessor · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Previously 170,000 were reported stolen by the NY Times, and now there are only 30 verifiably lost, and that's the part that stuck out for you?

    --

    "And this is my boy, Sherman. Speak, Sherman." "Hello." "Good boy."

  3. Hey OSS people: You are an international treasure. by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 0, Redundant


    Quote: "The open-source development community is an international treasure and should be protected as such..."

    I strongly agree with that statement.