[SGVLUG] Speaker for this month (c)

[John E. Kreznar]

From: Charles N Wyble <charles at knownelement.com>
Subject: Re: [SGVLUG] Speaker for this month
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:41:26 -0800

> On 03/10/2010 10:21 AM, Emerson, Tom (*IC) wrote:
>> ===============
>> John's response, short and sweet, was thus:
>> It was written:

>>> I can present on data ownership.

>> In order to know the enemy of open source?

> Um..... huh?

Towards clarification, the sense of "data ownership" discussed at the
meeting was entirely different from the "data ownership" that is the
enemy of open source, i.e. the "ownership" asserted by the proprietary
software companies over the publicly available bit strings that
constitute the subject of their EULAs.

 John E. Kreznar jek at ininx.com 9F1148454619A5F08550 705961A47CC541AFEF13
  "[What open source is actually achieving is to reduce] the ability of
   proprietary companies to collect secrecy rent."  -- Eric S. Raymond

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