Tag Archive for 'free software'

Battling Licenses

On this week’s Singularity Law Podcast, Michael and I briefly discussed some of the conflicts that exist between various copyleft licenses. Since then, I’ve had a few conversations with friends and attorneys (one at a job interview, in fact) in which I’ve detected some significant misunderstandings about the way these licenses relate to each other. [...]

Ten Reasons Why Free and Open Source Software is Good for Society

Free software1 promotes the study and improvement of computer programming methods.
Free software licenses like the GPL ensure that the whole community of users can benefit whenever an improvement is discovered, not just a few who “discovered it first.”
Open source code can be used to solve absolutely any problem for which it is suited or can [...]