Network services/Problems: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 12:51, 7 March 2008

We should have a clear statement and description of the problems for freedom that network services introduce along with examples, classifications, and necessary context.

Coders

A number of coders have worked for long periods on code that they assumed would be 'free' only to discover that others were using their code (which they had distributed) as a service and not distributing derivatives.
Some coders feel that an important freedom is the freedom to deliver applications on their own public accessible servers without sharing their derivatives.
Some service interfaces and business models are patented, notably Amazon S3. See http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/06/0439245 .

Public

Generally, users of software as a service have a particularly difficult time gaining the freedom to copy, distribute, or study code.
Users of some critical civic applications (like software running voting machines) have no way to study the code - undermining basic principles of democracy
As software becomes used in nanotechnology (like health applications), the four freedoms will likely become more and more important in areas that are not generally seen today as domains for software

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 * A number of coders have worked for long periods on code that they assumed would be 'free' only to discover that others were using their code (which they had distributed) as a service and not distributing derivatives.
 * Some coders feel that an important freedom is the freedom to deliver applications on their own public accessible servers without sharing their derivatives.
+* Some service interfaces and business models are patented, notably Amazon S3. See http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/06/0439245 .
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