Freedom in a new context
Published on Tuesday, July 24 2007
Tim O’Reilly kicked off the O’Reilly Radar Executive Briefing this morning by talking about the need to “rediscover the values of free and open in a new context.”
He talked about a number of different freedoms, beyond the “free as in beer” and “free as in speech” dichotomy:
- Freedom to use
- Freedom to build on and adapt
- Freedom to participate
- Freedom to fork
- Freedom to switch
And then asked a series of thought-provoking questions.
How to we maintain these freedoms in a world in which “runnung the program” requires a data center? (It isn’t about programs I can run on my machine but global web services with enormous data needs)
How do we maintain these freedoms when applications are delivered as services and don’t distribute code?
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