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The Global Software Industry in Transformation: After GPLv3

A good talk by Moglen going back to the background of the GPL toward it's future.

Here is the collection of links, there is a bit of everything, sorting is probably not exact but still, a lot of food for thoughts. I'll try to maintain them or repost updates... (yes i know, release early, release often! ;)

Anything pertaining to building and thinking a wearable (or not? :P) technology, knowledge and culture reaproriation architecture goes here, enjoy and comment! :)

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So what solutions shall we try?
We'd like to develop a wearable setup which is as efficient, cheap, light and small as possible with commercially available products so it can be easily cloned and replicated. We want it to be as simple as possible but as complete too while being easy to maintain over time. The design should really be about open standards, free softwares and general purpose computers with enough extra room (CPU, RAM, disks) for easy extensions.

Another important goal is to put as much control in the hand of the user. We realized that most needs for this project exist at least partially in some form or another and we think that with some glue with could try and make them all fit together for an interesting result. It would be impossible for us to reinvent the wheel and therefore a solid base of well known free software should be the basis for most of our requirements.

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Let us consider how we get access today. We have long been used to buy internet access from companies or, for some "lucky" few, academics and such. If we are to have a word to say on this network we need to own at least some part of it in some way. In this sense, I'm not saying no commercial entity can exist, to the contrary, just the fact that in residential areas, for example, we should either own our networks and manage them democratically or have a strong sets of rules to protect the users. An internet bill of right in some way... Producing content is no guarantee of ownership of this content as we regularly see in web's site agreements. An infrastructure for and by the people must be put in place so people's choice of licenses on content they produce can have some value.