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This talk tries to give a comprehensive overview of free and open source software. The talk is framed in terms of a historical narrative but the focus, in terms of content, tries to focus on the concepts, principles, projects, and people at the heart of free and open source software. | This talk tries to give a comprehensive overview of free and open source software. The talk is framed in terms of a historical narrative but the focus, in terms of content, tries to focus on the concepts, principles, projects, and people at the heart of free and open source software. | ||
My background is in work on free software projects over | My background is in work on free software projects over 16 years(!) in a variety of projects: | ||
* [http://www.debian.org Debian] | * [http://www.debian.org Debian] | ||
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* Most buildings on ''licenses'' (esp. copyleft) of FOSS but it's important to realize that these are instrumental in some cases, making mroe normatively sort of descriptions and calls for free things | * Most buildings on ''licenses'' (esp. copyleft) of FOSS but it's important to realize that these are instrumental in some cases, making mroe normatively sort of descriptions and calls for free things | ||
=== New | === New Challenges === | ||
* Network services produce a number of important challenges related to data and deep problems associated with shared ownership of a shared resources (free software is actually deeply troubled) | * Network services produce a number of important challenges related to data and deep problems associated with shared ownership of a shared resources (free software is actually deeply troubled) | ||
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* Software Patenting | * Software Patenting | ||
** [http://endsoftwarepatents.org End Software Patents] | ** [http://endsoftwarepatents.org End Software Patents] | ||