Eben Moglen’s invited talk at IBM Research:
Copyleft Capitalism: GPLv3 & the Future of Software Innovation.
ABSTRACT
Software is now, in the knowledge economy of the 21st century, made by “communities” rather than “firms.” The result is one of the less familiar aspects of 21st century economics — the dead-weight inefficiency of legal rules that treat knowledge as “property” from which non-paying users (who are also potential creators) should be excluded.
Alternative legal arrangements that permit sharing are in this environment preferentially selected and the evolutionary process has reached a new stage with the development and adoption of GPLv3. In this talk I consider both the constituent details and the larger context of the copyleft revolution in software production, and of GPLv3 in particular.
BIO
Professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia University Law School. Professor Moglen has represented many of the world’s leading free software developers. Professor Moglen earned his PhD in History and law degree at Yale University during what he sometimes calls his “long, dark period” in New Haven. After law school he clerked for Judge Edward Weinfeld of the United States District Court in New York City and to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. He has taught at Columbia Law School – and has held visiting appointments at Harvard University, Tel Aviv University and the University of Virginia – since 1987. In 2003 he was given the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Award for efforts on behalf of freedom in the electronic society. Professor Moglen is admitted to practice in the State of New York and before the United States Supreme Court. He is also a director of the Software Freedom Conservancy.
IBM
What this guy talks about fascinates me. Looks like he have been reading
alot.
No, no, you’re not you get what capitalism!Capitalism = Private
Property!Free software, you just deny that private property.socialist or
communist anarchist too if you like!whether something will be open and free
not capitalist bottom you!
Your English is difficult to understand. It seems that you have a problem
with the word “free”. The Free Software movement has always used it to mean
“Freedom”, not free as in cost, this can be seen in their writings dating
back to the 1980s, also, “Free Software” is translated to french as
“Logiciel Libre” in their official french documentation, not “Logiciel
Gratuit”. If you think freedom is incompatible with capitalism, I’m not
sure what to say. Maybe you haven’t heard of the ‘free’ market?
The szabad szoftver founded by left-wing people! Wondering why no eggs are
stupid right wing ?
Maybe you’re trolling, but the point he makes is precisely that free/open
source software IS MORE compatible with free market capitalism, than
proprietary software is. Proprietary software has characteristics that lead
to vendor lock-in and anti-competitive business practices. Capitalism
*requires* competition to function. Copylefted software creates conditions
that enable more competition, by creating a services industry, and leveling
the playing field with regards to the software itself.
Do you know What is the meaning of capitalism? HEAD !Capitalism and
democracy are not reconciled with !
Copyleft Capitalism?:DD Toltal oximoron!!
Thank you for sharing this with us!
Do you have the rest of this talk?