I’ve been a little too swamped with school and interviews to do much openservice thinking of late, but it has not been far from my mind. Some links to prove I’m at least reading if not writing:
Matt Asay hits on the crux of the issue- GPL, in a web context, is just like BSD. Some [...]
Obviously interviews have kept me unable to think about the open services stuff over the past several days, but I’m still keeping an eye on my feed reader as time allows. Came across “Brad’s thoughts on the social graph” today- some interesting discussion on the identity/network problem, and how to solve it. This doesn’t seem [...]
“Free software… refers to four kinds of freedom, for the users of the software…”
–Free Software Definition, emphasis mine
“closing the [ASP] loophole would infringe on certain peoples rights and he [Moglen] didn’t see any way to preserve everyone’s rights…”
– Eben Moglen, as paraphrased here
[The rest of this post is not based on any conversations with FSF/SFLC [...]
Thinking about the Open Service problem
As Havoc mentioned, I’m putting in some time on thinking about what an Open Service Definition (to parallel the Open Source and Free Software Definitions). I present here a rough draft of a framework for evaluating such a definition. It is not the definition itself, nor a license/technology/business model/etc. which [...]