1. HLS, July 3, 2002

2. free, open, shared, proprietary how’s a girl to choose?

4. Proprietary

5. Open or Free +

6. Proprietary machine

7. Open or Free machineplans +

8. Proprietary binary

9. Open or Free binarysource +

10. Proprietary

11. Open or Free machineplans +

12. Proprietary

13. Open or Free machineplans +

14. with proprietary, society gets the chicken;

15. with open/free, society gets the chicken and the recipe

17. free open shared proprietary

18. restrictions

19. open free shared proprietary restrictions

20. public domain open free shared proprietary restrictions

21. public domain open free shared proprietary restrictions © protected

22. what are the restrictions?

23. public domain: none

24. public domain: code + no restrictions

25. proprietary: all

26. proprietary: no code + tons

27. open: code + slight

29. shared: code + lots

31. free: code + GPL

33. GPL?

34. copyleft

35. copyleft: “share and share alike”

36. copyleft: give on the same terms that you took

38. advantages

39. 1. Zero price

40. 1. Zero price 2. Good code

41. 1. Zero price 2. Good code 3. Teaching others

42. 1. Zero price 2. Good code 3. Teaching others 4. Strategic behavior

43. 1. Zero price 2. Good code 3. Teaching others 4. Strategic behavior 5. Destroy IP

44. openfreesharedprop “free”y good teach strat-egy destroy

45. openfreesharedprop “free”yy good teach strat-egy destroy

46. openfreesharedprop “free”yym good teach strat-egy destroy

47. openfreesharedprop “free”yymy good teach strat-egy destroy

48. openfreesharedprop “free”yymy goody teach strat-egy destroy

49. openfreesharedprop “free”yymy goodyy teach strat-egy destroy

50. openfreesharedprop “free”yymy goodyyy teach strat-egy destroy

51. openfreesharedprop “free”yymy goodyyyy teach strat-egy destroy

52. openfreesharedprop “free”yymy goodyyyy teachall strat-egy destroy

53. openfreesharedprop “free”yymy goodyyyy teachall strat-egy destroy

54. openfreesharedprop “free”yymy goodyyyy teachall some strat-egy destroy

55. openfreesharedprop “free”yymy goodyyyy teachall somenone strat-egy destroy

56. “strategic behavior”

57. depends on control

58. openfreesharedprop “free”yymy goodyyyy teachall somenone strat-egy unlikel y destroy

59. openfreesharedprop “free”yymy goodyyyy teachall somenone strat-egy unlikel y never destroy

60. openfreesharedprop “free”yymy goodyyyy teachall somenone strat-egy unlikel y nevery, hard destroy

61. openfreesharedprop “free”yymy goodyyyy teachall somenone strat-egy unlikel y nevery, hardy destroy

62. “destroy IP”

63. “viral”

64. openfreesharedprop “free”yymy goodyyyy teachall somenone strat-egy unlikel y nevery, hardy destroyn

65. openfreesharedprop “free”yymy goodyyyy teachall somenone strat-egy unlikel y nevery, hardy destroynn

66. openfreesharedprop “free”yymy goodyyyy teachall somenone strat-egy unlikel y nevery, hardy destroyn?n

67. openfreesharedprop “free”yymy goodyyyy teachall somenone strat-egy unlikel y nevery, hardy destroyn??n

69. Which prefer?

70. Who’s the we?

71. Gov’t: two gains

73. Gov’t: (1) transparency

74. Gov’t: e.g.: Carnivore

75. Gov’t: (2) externality

76. Should we choose?

77. rich ecology

78. ecological threats:

79. software patents

80. If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today’s ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete stand-still today.

81. The solution... is patent exchanges... and patenting as much as we can.... A future start-up with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose. That price might be high: Established companies have an interest in excluding future competitors.

83. Established companies have an interest in excluding future competitors.

84. patents

85. BAD