Toronto Conference On Open Source Announced

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday February 18, 2004 @06:03PM 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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Don't worry - there's room for all. by Qwavel · 2004-02-19 04:54 · Score: 4, Interesting

Don't let the views of 1 speaker worry you. He's not the 'official spokesperson' for FLOSS - nobody is.

FLOSS is very 'big tent'. Everyone is welcome. It brings together the strangest bedfellows, eg. in the US it has lots of freedom and gun lovin' republicans, and lots of socialist gov't lovin' lefties. Not to mention all those who don't care at all about politics. And now they are all working together.

(To be fair, I didn't mean to contrast 'freedom' with 'socialist' - I recognize that democratic socialists love their freedom just as the others.)