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Tim O'Reilly says Open Source Licenses Are Obsolete, as the world moves in the direction of web services. He adds:
I don't think that the answer is to try to make free and open source licenses that restrict the behavior of web applications, so that, for example, the GPL would bind Amazon or Google and keep them from using Linux. Instead, what we need is a new "open services definition." Interesting idea, especially because many business models have been built around the loopholes (as Richard Stallman would see it) of the open source licenses. Also -- is O'Reilly saying that charged-for services are immoral, the way Stallman thinks that anything except free (both freely available and by necessary implication free-of-charge) software is immoral?
The phrase is catchy, but I do not see the migration path.
posted by James DeLong @ 9:02 AM | Software
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