RE: Augustin's 8 Simple Rules for Open-Source Business Strategy

On Sat, 27 Mar 2004, Larry M. Augustin wrote:

> Taran Rampersad wrote:
> >Given the recent discussions on the list, this appears to be pertinent -
> >and accurate.
> >
> >http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1553990,00.asp
> 
> I'm a bit surprised at the coverage of that talk.  I certainly didn't expect
> anyone to write a story on it.
> 
> I would appreciate feedback from this list.

  I thought what you said was great.  I found the reporter thinking that
"Open Source" was something new a bit annoying.  The term was new and the
marketing campaign was new, but I don't think the concepts behind the Free
Software movement could even be claimed to have been started by the FSF in
the 1980's leave alone the OSI in the late 1990's, or the Creative Commons
in the early 2000's.


  This isn't a critique of the FSF, OSI, or CC, but I sometimes wonder if
certain personalities are given more credit by the media than they are
due.  I have my own heros in this movement with Lessig and Moglen being at
the top, but that may because I think of myself as a "software paralegal"  
http://www.flora.ca/russell/drafts/osw2004.html#software-paralegal and the
presentation from these lawyers being more credible to me than Stallman or
Raymond (I've met Stallman, Raymond, and Moglen in person, but not yet
Lessig).  My heros are not the same as everyone else, and not the ones
most often mentioned in the media as "starting" something far bigger than
any of these people or their groups.

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