Open Source: Magic or Dirty Carpet?
February 25, 2010
I have to give the Guardian a pat on the back. I try to ignore open source, and my feedreaders keeps routing me open source articles. I ignore most of them. The Google-spider food headline, “When Using Open Source Makes You an Enemy of the State”, arrested me (no pun intended). The main idea is that copyright and intellectual property has another mini-storm front brewing. The key passage pivots on a person named Andres Guadamuz, a law professor in Scotland. The Guardian reported:
Guadamuz has done some digging and discovered that an influential lobby group is asking the US government to basically consider open source as the equivalent of piracy – or even worse.
You can read the original article to get the scoop. In a nutshell, legal eagles in the US (home of the sticky tort with spaghetti noodles) wants to make life tough for open source. The addled goose has not figured out the “secret” ACTA treaty and now he is nervous about open source.
I am using Windows to write this post, and I think I will watch this issue. My thought is that life must have been simpler in the 4th century.
Stephen E Arnold, February 25, 2010
No one paid me to write this. Since I reference the era cheerfully tagged “Dark Ages,” I will report non payment for my work to the National Archives. Whoops. The US only goes back a couple of centuries. Well, shucks.
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