Internetrecht door Arnoud Engelfriet

Via via kwam ik de Open Source Speech van science-fiction auteur Bruce Sterling tegen. Sterling is geen programmeur maar kan wel ontzettend goed aangeven hoe dingen in elkaar zitten. Deze speech, of beter rant, is al uit 2002 maar nog steeds actueel. En de ontwikkelaars krijgen er flink van langs:

It’s like life in a refugee camp. If you want Doctors Without Borders to show up, you don’t want to have yourself any kind of really nice refugee camp. With some flowers, and a safe place for old ladies to knit. You want that inferno of starvation and disease that looks really good on CNN. Because if you actually organized a refugee camp, then you’d have stuff like taxes and gas and electricity and police protection, as opposed to what one gets in squatters’ camps, which is, incessant internal quarrels. Because there’s never just one gang trying to run the anarchy. You get bitter quarrels, between Free Software and Open Source, between the Stallman hero-model and alternative business.

Oftewel: het verschil tussen open source en vrije software.

Arnoud