[Sheflug] Previous ShefLUG Talk

[Richard Ibbotson <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

https://soundcloud.com/richard-ibbotson/james-vasile-came-to-sheffield

I did this so that everyone could listen to it.  Not for me to prevent 
it's distribution.  With that in mind I thought I should put it on 
SoundCloud.

This is a presentation that we did back in April 2008.  This is a talk 
given at Sheffield Hallam University some years ago about the subject of 
open source software and legal aspects of the General Public Licence. 
Replicating the success of free software. 

The content of James' talk was something like the following. The Free 
Software movement has proven itself in every imaginable way. We have 
quality software on servers, desktops and in embedded systems. Free 
Software is used in homes, offices, retail and in manufacturing. 
Everywhere from back rooms to classrooms and boardrooms. We've spawned 
new business models and changed the economics of old ones. The 
challenges that are left will be met and soon.

Such has been the success of free software that we have spawned entire 
other movements. From Creative Commons to open hardware to open 
science, everybody wants to replicate Free Software's achievements in 
new media. Even further, there are people fighting for values that, 
while beloved in the Free Software world, are not protected by the 
Free Software society. Values like privacy and data portability 
between web services. Each of these attempts borrows from Free 
Software's history. This talk looks at what is being taken, what is 
being left, and why. It's an inquiry into the future, as we ask how to 
nurture these nascent movements.

-- 
Richard

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