Availability and Ownership

re: Availability and Ownership

AndyO — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:11:55 GMT

"Ownership is not important, only availability."
I look very much forward to an explanation to that assessment. Availability is perhaps the oftent most important, but if the owner can "cut the airsupport" on you or your availabiliy by snapping fingers, ownership becomes very important. In other words; If the ownership-issue is unresolved, availability is irrelevant. If you find an abandoned car with the keys in the ignition, wouldn't you like to know the owners take on you getting in and drive off, even if availability in the current moment is total?

re: Availability and Ownership

Jason Matusow — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 23:47:12 GMT

AndyO -
I totally agree. I chose to stay away from the legal implications of ownership in this posting as the argument as put to me was regarding economic opportunity.

I think the issues with ownership go very deep in the OSS disucssion. It is an area I often speak about as open source software is most definitely someone's property. Their choice as to how to license that property is the crux of the biscuit. (sorry, Frank Zappa reference)

Jason

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Mike — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 18:56:45 GMT

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