1. (apologies for that quiz)

2. Four Stories, Three Arguments, and One Q&A Luis Villa Duke CPS 82

3. lots of obvious themes, two (less obvious) themes

4. lucky (and unusual) life

5. no formal 'wisdom'

6. Story #1: tieguy

9. lots of time in line, but also...

11. admission: I sort of created modern 'cheer sheets'

12. (we were bored, there was ethernet)

13. N&O: 'ringleader'

14. lots of friends

15. one job offer

16. one nickname

18. Story #2: best summer job(s) ever

19. Lego!

20. found a crazy german

21. found a fun loving italian

26. Story #3: life on the interblag

30. Story #4: software code to legal code

31. Duke GPL in Alspaugh 200Mb HD of mp3s slashdot.org moderation “Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace” good (not great) programmer

32. post-Duke Duke Conference on the Public Domain mediocre lawyers Novell acquired... what? friends with startups Post-9/11 surveillance

33. MESSAGE

34. That was waaaay too much about me.

35. lets talk software and source code

36. 2 10 ~= 1000

37. three things

38. 1st: open source works

39. (not tool for every job)

40. (not magic)

41. (but generally, it works)

42. 2nd: open source matters

44. 3rd: software freedom matters

46. open source works

47. Lego!

48. Evolution 1.0 QA

49. what about something bigger?

50. wikipedia: 100,000,000 hours

51. linux: 110,000,000 hours

52. seems big

53. turns out people have a lot of free time

54. TV ads, in the US, in one weekend: 100,000,000 hours

55. how? why?

56. transaction costs want to be zero

57. in other words: collaborating used to be hard

58. now it is silly easy

59. hence, open source works

60. (if time: where doesn't it work?)

61. now: open source matters

62. “It has been estimated that open source software products accounted for a 13% share of the $92.7 billion software market in 2006, and that they will account for a 27% share in 2011.” –amicus curiae, Jacobsen v. Katzer

63. 1988: MIT sponsored ~ no one used it

64. 1999: Red Hat IPO tentative commercial use

65. 2008: everyone sponsors everyone uses

66. big

67. small

68. cheap, easy, and custom matters

69. can't overstate: open source matters

70. final and most controversial: software freedom matters

72. software is education

73. software is the press

74. software counts votes

75. software is core to economy

76. software is important

77. as important as factories or feudalism

78. (as important as democracy or tyranny?)

79. for the first time, we can choose opacity or transparency

80. for the first time, we can choose autonomy or control

81. might disagree about the right choices and balances

82. (because there are balances)

83. but it is important to know there is a choice

84. software freedom matters because it forces us to make that choice consciously

85. so... questions?

86. Made with: Fedora Linux (fedoraproject.org) GNOME (gnome.org) OpenOffice.org (openoffice.org) Flickr Creative Commons Search (flickr.com) Available soon from: http://tieguy.org/talks/ More questions answered soon on the blog!

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