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Toronto Conference On Open Source Announced

Posted by simoniker on from the worthy dept.

Simon Bates writes "The University of Toronto's KMDI is hosting a conference to debate the future of open source models of development in software and beyond, addressing how this movement will affect the way we work, learn and stay healthy. Among the 30 speakers will be Eben Moglen, Columbia law school professor and legal counsel to the Free Software Foundation, who has recently described free software as: 'a social movement with specific political goals which will characterize not only the production of software in the twenty-first century, but the production and distribution of culture generally'. The conference will be held from May 9th to 11th and will be webcast."

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  1. Re:Programmers of the world unite! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    A louse in a house with a mouse and a spouse at the bottom of the sea...

  2. Hrmph. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    From the registration page: $395 CAD for early bird registration. $145 CAD to watch the webcast?.

    They should open source the conference itself. Where's the love?

  3. Re:well.. by QuantumG · · Score: 2, Funny

    It sure does. That's the most annoying thing about being an Open Source advocate, there's all these people around us who have principles and morals. It just makes you sick.

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