lawernce lessig explaned, without breaking company policy, the need for something like creative commons
- creative commons is between the full on copyright and public domain, so essentiall it is allowing your work to be used, hoever not commercially ... people dont need to ask permission to use it but if they used it in a profitable way they would
- some rights are protected
- Lessig argued that aeroplanes dont have to ask permission to fly over someones land, and that our society has become read-only driven instead of the previous read-wright ...
the use of creative commons is really good and i am glad it was presented to me as it is a way to gain exposure without worry that someone would steal my work and sell it... it is also good so that i can use it to see and use others work.
http://www.creativecommons.org/
check it out!
The next part of the lecture Muir spent on free software, Microsoft software and the Apple software are both Proprietary orientated software and cost alot of money to have and when you have it you cant change the source codes to suit you, and due to this inconvienient fact a man by the name of Richard Stallman decided that software should be open source(free ) for people to have and change as they wish, without legal worries....he called his operating system GNU which stood for Gnu not Unix( quite a funny play on recurring words)
Freedoms of open source
- to run the program for any purpose
- the freedom to run the program for your needs and be able to adapt it for your needs(being able to alter the source code)
- the freedom to redistribute your copies
- the freedom to distribute your changes to benefit your community
Proprietary vs Open source
- source code is confidential for the proprietary company
- legal agreements exist for proprietary companies
- proprietary developed traditionally by staff of companies
- goals set by company
the opposite exist for the open source products
The benfits of open source
- the projects are usually quick as there are no resource horizons
- multiple sulotions wuickly solved
- changes are direct responses to what people want
- immediate release of new products
- free and easily downloaded
- no hidden functionality
The cons of open source
- open source depends of the size of the community
- the areas developed are usually intrest horizon orientated and some programs are not found
- switching cost for changing to open source
- lack of funds makes progress on dull problems slow
The Pros definately outweigh the cons and open source is definately worth while considering....and another great way to stick it to the man! so today we SALUTE YOU ADAM!
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