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There's No Such Thing as a Free (Software) Lunch.







There's No Such Thing as a Free
(Software) Lunch.

There's No Such Thing as a Free
(Software) Lunch.
06/18/2004 08:36 PM

Jay Michaelson: There's No Such Thing as a Free (Software) Lunch. This is perhaps the only article I've seen that so clearly distinguishes between freedom for software and freedom for programmers. Software isn't alive; why should it have freedom?




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It's the latest buzz to sweep the internet--free iPods for signing up and referring five of your friend. There was plenty of skepticism at first, but when positive reports started coming in, the popularity of the site took off. But like any pyramid scheme, the people who are only signing up now are getting burned. And of course, won't someone think of the children?

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The Los Angeles CBS affiliate has just released a damning report on low-carb foodstuffs, in which its lab determines that many low-carb foodstuffs have far more carbohydrate content than claimed by the manufacturers ("Low-Carb Emporium claims 15 grams of carbs per bagel. Our lab found... 55").
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Low-Carb Emporium claims 15 grams of carbs per bagel. Our lab found triple the carbs -- 55. Low-carb Emporium says they just re-did the formulas and will be getting lab reports on new formulas soon.

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A free lunch with Microsoft


A free lunch with Microsoft 08/04/2004 04:34 AM
I chatted with Microsoft's Jason Matusow last week. That, in itself, isn't unusual as most weeks I talk to someone from the Redmond Empire. But this was a bit more interesting because it took place at the Open Source Conference, and Matusow was wearing a badge identifying him as a Microsoftie.

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Business Week is running a long excerpt from a new book about the economics of innovation (tragically, Business Week believes that they need to make people click through a ridiculous number of screens to read the whole thing, when having a "single page view" would make much more sense for those of us who hate clicking over and over again and just want to read the damn article). The book is called < i>Rational Exuberance : Silencing the Enemies of Growth and Why the Future Is Better Than You Think and it talks about how risk taking and exuberant growth from innovation helps expand the economy and help so many people increase their standard of living. Considering the focus these days on people who seem more worried about how growth can destroy their jobs, this is a refreshing change. It's a reminder that the economy is not a zero sum game - and innovation helps to expand the overall pie, rather than just shift the pieces around. One of the most interesting ideas in the excerpt is to just look around at how many jobs there are today that were completely unavailable (or even unimaginable) 100 years ago. In fact, you could even make the same argument for ten years ago as compared to today. Even more important is realizing that not all of the job creation is directly attributable to the innovation, but often indirectly. For example, the article points out that massive amusement parks like Disney World in Orlando, Florida wouldn't have made sense without the innovation of commercial airline travel. When people today insist that their can be no new types of jobs in the future if our jobs are offshored or automated, just think how many jobs were created over the last hundred years for people who felt the same way, and realize that the pace of innovation, our "rational exuberance" hasn't slowed down.

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I make software - and the thing about it
is


I make software - and the thing about it
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02/13/2004 01:19 PM
Two Boyds on YASNSes (Seb Paquet). Many-to-Many:
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Two Boyds on YASNSes

First up is the crib of danah boyd’s “Revenge of the User” presentation at the O’Reilly emerging technology conference, which offers a quick rundown of relevant sociological research then dives into an excellent illustrated tour of the issues and traps that await technologists who architect social software. It’s lengthy but she doesn’t waste space.

Social behavior doesn’t have a technological solution. We’re all involved with social software because we see needs that technology can solve. Yet, by building the technology, we don’t simply address or fail to address those needs; we create new realities. At this point, we need to think in a new way. We need to think about what new realities we formed, what new problems evolved, what new needs happened. Then we need to iterate.

Second is Stowe Boyd’s notes on an event bringing together five executives of social networking system companies. Rather hard to summarize - just go read it. [Many-to-Many]

OK - so let's start with Stowe Boyd's report.

The business sector is floundering around - trying to "wrap their arms" around something - that is un-wrappable.  Since social software is not a single market or even single trend - the VCs wanna know "where's the beef?"  "What's the business model?"  "Who do we invest in?"

But the thing about it is - social software is more than a trend or fad.  It's a raising of the bar - bringing humans into the equation of software.  Directly.

From now on - all software MUST recognize the fact that humans use it. That those humans have relationships with other humans and that those relationships are probably more important than that human giving money to the software vendor.

Those software vendors that grok this fundamental principle - will suceed. Those VCs that listen and learn - will profit. 

Social software is somewhat akin to multimedia and 'the web'. They're certainly NOT one market, one trend, one thing at all.  They're a raising of the ante - a whole new day.  So just like multimedia and the web changed EVERYTHING - so will social software.

Now onto Ms. Boyd's - oh excuse me - boyd's points.

Yes  she's right - we do need context.  Digital ID without a context is.... - well there were plenty of dot com startups who tried to figure that one out. But it wasn't until Adrian Scott and Ryze - did the lightbulbs start going off.

But I make software.

I understand that social software takes an inherent analog, human process and trys to mold into something digital.  But that's what up.

So instead of just complaining and discussing, perhaps danah can get a little specific.  Like what's the button called?  What gets put into the text field?  What features and capabilties WOULD work?

I'll be seeing danah and the whole crowd up at Microsoft at the end of March.  I'll make sure to make that point - there.  'cause without specifics - the whole "this stuff sucks' diatribe is gonna get real old - real quick.  The goal of research should be to come up with solutions.

Speaking of Microsoft - Lili Cheng - our host up there - showed off Wallop.  I just wanna say one thing.

Oh man, oh man, oh woman, oh shit, uh oh, here they come.

And the thing about it is...........


OJR article: Free Content Becoming Thing
of the Past for UK's Online Newspaper
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OJR article: Free Content Becoming Thing
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Mobilization of Software Developers: The Free Software Movement by Margret S. Elliott and Walter Scacchi
http://ope nsource.mit.edu/papers/elliottscacchi2.pdf

Abstract by Author:
Free/open source software (F/OSS) development projects are growing at a rapid rate. Globally dispersed virtual communities with large groups of software developers contribute time and effort often without pay. One force behind this phenomenon is the Free Software Movement (FSM), a 20 year-old social movement whose purpose is to promote the use of free software instead of proprietary software. We show how the ideology of the FSM influences software development work practices in F/OSS communities and how an occupational community of F/OSS developers has emerged from this movement. We present results from an empirical study of a F/OSS development community, GNUenterprise (GNUe) whose purpose is to build an Enterprise Resource Planning system. We show how the beliefs in freedom and freedom of choice, and the values of cooperative work and community building are manifested in the GNUe norms of informal self-management, immediate acceptance of fellow contributors, and open disclosure.

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PHP: Free Software on Free Tools 05/17/2004 10:25 AM

Open Source: Open Source Scripting Made Easy: This is an article about PHP scripting tools that makes an important point:

Commercial scripting languages have drawn success from powerful and widely used development tools: ASP has Visual Studio, ColdFusion has Macromedia's Dreamweaver, and JSP has a variety of tools from commercial sources such as Borland and open source projects such as Eclipse and NetBeans. PHP's enormous success, however, is not tied to specific tools.

Some friends of mine have been working with Microsoft's .Net platform. They tell me it's amazing ("fan-friggin'-tastic," one of them called it). This is great, but I guess I don't like anything where the barrier to entry is so high — first you have to have a Windows server, then you have to have the Windows dev environment.

I code PHP in EditPlus, which cost me all of $30, and that was an optional purchase because there are so many other free alternatives. Maybe I'm just a snob. Via PHP|Architect.

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ht tp://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_3/klang/index.html

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To most outsiders the ethics of software is not something usually considered. To most proficient computer users with a passing interest in this question the ethics of software is recognised as one of the fundamental questions in the digital rights area. To most of the latter, terms such as free software, open source, and their derivatives (FLOSS, FOSS, Software Freedom) are interchangeable. Choosing one over the other is a matter of taste rather than politics. However, to most insiders the
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Software MIT
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The following papers have been recently posted to New Papers on:
http://freesoftware.mit.edu
http://opensource.mit.edu

PAPER 1

Author:
Vadén Tere

Title:
Intellectual Property, Open Source and Free Software
http://opensource.mi t.edu/papers/vaden.pdf

Abstract
The notion of intellectual property is used in order to create digital commodities. While the commodification of code is useful for certain kinds of knowledge intesive work (the Taylorist forms), it severely disrupts other types of knowledge creation. Applying Scott Lash's division of knowledge creation into organisational and disorganisational types, we also gain insight into the different positions towards IP held by different wings of the FOSS community.

PAPER 2

Authors:
Garzarelli, Giampaolo & Roberto Galoppini

Title:
Capability Coordination in Modular Organization: Voluntary FS/OSS Production and the Case of Debian GNU/Linux
http:/ /opensource.mit.edu/papers/garzarelligaloppini.pdf

Abstract:
The paper analyzes voluntary Free Software/Open Source Software (FS/OSS) organization of work. The empirical setting considered is the Debian GNU/Linux operating system. The paper finds that the production process is hierarchical notwithstanding the modular (nearly decomposable) architecture of software and of voluntary FS/OSS organization. But voluntary FS/OSS project organization is not hierarchical for the same reasons suggested by the most familiar theories of economic organization: hierarchy is justified for coordination of continuous change, rather than for the direction of static production. Hierarchy is ultimately the overhead attached to the benefits engendered by modular organization.

PAPER 3

Author:
Modica, Salvatore

Title:
Knowledge Transfer in R&D Outsourcing (and Linux-Vs-Windows)
http://opensource.m it.edu/papers/modica.pdf

Abstract:
Why did Microsoft not hire all those smart programmers who ended up developing Linux through the internet? Because, we answer, the value of the information about its operating system that Microsoft should have transferred to any of them to render her productive would have been too high compared to her expected individual contribution, so that after writing a contract with Microsoft the typical developer would have run away to sell the acquired knowledge on the market. On the other hand, knowledge transfer in R&D outsourcing is not always so critical, and for example in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries research contracts are extensively used, usually in the context of a long term relationship between firm and innovator. We analyze this kind of repeated interaction, and find that when the knowledge-transfer problem is not blocking, the firm should transfer to the innovator as much information as it is compatible with the latter's incentive constraints.

PAPER 4

Author
Dafermos, George

Title:
Blogging the Market
http://opensourc e.mit.edu/papers/dafermos3.pdf

Abstract:
Weblogs have been recently characterised as the "open source media". And in much the same way that open source software is been deployed, marketed and sold within both commercial and non-commercial contexts, weblogs can advance both commercial and non-commercial objectives. However, in this primary - research paper, the focus is on the benefits that organisations can seize by embracing weblogs, and how weblogs are bound to revitalise marketplace and workplace conversations. In addition, several case studies are being analysed, ranging from Slashdot and Openflows to Amazon, Macromedia, Groove Networks, and Gizmodo.

PAPER 5

Author:
McCormick, Chip

Title:
The Big Project That Never Ends': Role and Task Negotiation Within an Emerging Occupational Community (Dissertation in progress)
http://opensourc e.mit.edu/papers/mccormick.pdf

Abstract:
This dissertation involved in-depth interviews of over fifty open source developers in two major open source projects. The primary areas of interest were 1) conducting an ethnographic study of the work practices and culture of 'post-burecratic' organizations to see what lessons these groups may hold for managing intellectual labor and 2) examining whether the open source movement represents a new professional model for software engineering.

PAPER 6

Updated Paper

Author:
Chiao, Benjamin Hak-Fung

Title:
An Economic Theory of Free and Open Source Software: A Tour from Lighthouse to Chinese-Style Socialism (revised version)
http://opensource.mi t.edu/papers/chiao.pdf

Abstract
The theory is that free and open source software is private property under the guise of common property. Such software is distributed mostly under the GNU General Public License. The intents in The GNU Manifesto suggest striking similarities between this license and communism. The resulting economic properties, however, are similar to those of Chinese-style socialism: both resulted from an increased separation of legal and economic ownership. The phenomenal growth of China in the last twenty five years and of such software in the past few years could be attributed to such separation.

PAPER 7

Abstract Submission

Author:
Muffatto, Moreno & Matteo Faldani

Title:
Open Source as a Complex Adaptive System - Published in Emergence 5 (3)
http://www.emergence.org/


Abstract:
The Open Source community and its activities can be considered to have the characteristics of a system. The Open Source system is distinctive because it is neither controlled by a central authority that defines strategy and organization nor totally chaotic. It can be placed at a middle position between a planned system and a chaotic one. In this sort of position there are non-formal rules which allow the system to produce significant results. The Complex Adaptive System theory can be used to better understand and analyze the Open Source system. This work presents a description of the main characteristics of the functioning of the Open Source community regarding its organizational structure and development process. The concept of complex adaptive system is then introduced and its functioning mechanisms briefly described. Finally, we will interpret the characteristics of the Open Source community in the context of complex adaptive systems theory.

Teaching educators about free software


Teaching educators about free software 12/17/2003 10:45 AM
I was shocked when the middle school principal told me he could not accept free software for his journalism program; that all he was allowed to use was fresh-from-the-box commercial software. "It's school district policy," he said. "We can't even bring software from home now. It's because of the licensing. There are big fines for using unlicensed software. We can't risk it." This was an educated man, a fine teacher and administrator, but he knew nothing about the licensing terms under which Linux, OpenOffice, and many other fine programs are distributed. Neither, apparently, did his superiors in the school district administration. We need to teach them.

In Brief: SOA Software offers free
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SOA Software (formerly Digital Evolution) is offering its Registry product for free for a limited time. Registry is an enterprise-class UDDI Version 3-compliant services registry and meta-data repository. By offering its Registry at no charge, SOA Software hopes to encourage adoption of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions.  

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Will free software kill shareware? Every day we celebrate the victories of open source software against the big guns, enjoying each corporate and governmental adoption as it comes. We talk about how wonderful it is that open source software is taking part in a larger social and economic revolution and comment on how we're looking forward to the day when open source software will dominate the software industry. The little guys, the story will go, put together a series of tools that evolved into a complete operating system which ultimately took over and threw down the big monolithic software giants. And all along, we, the little guys, kept to our values and ideals, held strong in the face of corporate threats, and banded together to Fight the Good Fight. What started as a bunch of little guys turned into several companies, and these companies grew until they were big guys. Then we garnered the support of several large companies and flirted with even more. Until one day we looked around and realized we weren't the little guys anymore.
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