Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 19:31:36 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Is someone from FreeBSD participating in this? Message-ID: <199804090131.TAA20981@lariat.lariat.org>
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The following message describes a meeting held by O'Reilly and Associates about free software. Was someone from FreeBSD in attendance? --Brett Glass >Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 21:03:42 -0400 >From: James Love <love@cptech.org> >Organization: http://www.cptech.org >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) >To: Multiple recipients of list <am-info@essential.org> >Subject: Open Source meeting report > >Subject: IP: open source interests > Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 20:53:15 -0400 > From: Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu> > To: ip-sub-1@majordomo.pobox.com > >Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 23:49:30 -0700 >From: Judi Clark <judic@manymedia.com> >Subject: open source interests >: >: > >Yesterday, O'Reilly (publishers) convened a meeting that I thought >might be of interest to this group. The attendees at the meeting >included a few names we may have never heard of yet whose work we >depend on each day: > >Sameer Parakh, C2/Stronghold software >Paul Vixie, BIND >Brian Behlendorf, Apache >Eric Allman & Greg Olson, Sendmail >Tom Paquin & Jamie Zawinski, Netscape >Linus Torvalds, Linux >Tim O'Reilly >Larry Wall, perl >John Ousterhaut, Tcl/Tk >Guido van Rossum, Python >John Gilmore (various) >Eric Raymond, "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" (excellent article) >Phil Zimmermann, PGP >and several others > >I've been hoping to see an effort of this kind for some time now, >and was happy to attend the press event following the meeting. >The main things covered at the meeting were establishing some >terminology ("open source means source code open to the public"), >and starting to look at methodology for any kind of collaborations >that might emerge. One point that came out clearly was the need >for the public to see and understand the significance of this >model of software development, and its prevalence in our lives. >No big PR departments to alert the press when new developments >come along. > >Yes, it was clear that much of the press was largely lost in this >new world. Was it Open Source vs. Microsoft? How was Open Source >ever going to make it in a shrinkwrapped world? And how will the >press know what's coming next? Little did they know that shrinkwrap >is, we were told, but a small percent of the overall software- >related business world. And how would anyone make a living in this >Open Source world? (As if distribution and customer support were >not the major expenses? Driving down the cost of distribution still >leaves a whale of an opportunity, as Cygnus and C2 demonstrate!) > >The main points to be shared are the following: > >1. Open source runs a lot of stuff now. >2. Open source software development spawns new businesses and models >3. There is a social impact yet to be discovered >4. Open source demonstrates new ideas through mass usage >5. protects freedom of choice, keeps the market honest > >The work is beginning to increase awareness and mindshare. Just as >some of us are coders and testers... > >I'm sure you will see more info about this meeting soon on O'Reilly's >web site. The press release (with links) is found at: > http://www.oreilly.com/oreilly/press/freeware.html > >You might also be interested in the "grim scenario" at the beginning >of this article: > http://www.netaction.org/articles/freesoft.html > > judi > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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