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How Open is the Future? Marleen Wynants & Jan Cornelis (Eds) How Open is the Future? Economic, Social & Cultural Scenarios inspired by Free & Open-Source Software The contents of this book not reflect the views of the VUB, VUBPRESS or the editors, and are entirely the responsibility of the authors alone Cover design: Dani Elskens Book design: Boudewijn Bardyn Printed in Belgium by Schaubroeck, Nazareth 2005 VUB Brussels University Press Waversesteenweg 1077, 1160 Brussels, Belgium Fax + 32 6292694 e-mail: vubpress@vub.ac.be www.vubpress.be ISBN 90-5487-378-7 NUR 740 D / 2005 / 1885 / 01 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercialNoDerivs License To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/be/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, California 94305, USA There is a human-readable summary of the Legal Code (the full license) available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/be/legalcode.nl Foreword & Acknowledgements This volume offers a series of articles ranging from the origins of free and open-source software to future social, economic and cultural perspectives inspired by the free and open-source spirit A complete version of How Open is the Future? is available under a Creative Commons licence at http://crosstalks.vub.ac.be How Open is the Future? is also available as printed matter, as you can experience at this moment The topic of free and open-source software emerged from the initiative by Professor Dirk Vermeir of the Computer Science Department of the VUB – Vrije Universiteit Brussel – to award Richard Stallman an honorary doctorate from the VUB From then on we set out to create a neutral platform where the voices of artists, journalists, key social and economic players, policymakers and scientific researchers could mingle and reflect on a possible future and the preservation of our digital and intellectual commons First of all, we want to thank all the participants and speakers at the first CROSSTALKS workshop, Windows by Day, Linux by Night, on 11 December 2003 and all the participants at our first Science and Industry Dinner on 20 February 2004, in particular, guest speaker Tim O’Reilly for his talk and Richard Stallman for popping in and increasing the complexity of the discussions We are grateful to all who contributed to this publication and spent a considerable part of their time clearing the trajectory from the free and open-source software issue How Open is the Future? towards a future agenda for a new kind of commons in an open-minded knowledge and communication society Special thanks go to people who engaged in fruitful debates with us on the issue, who gave tips and comments and reviewed the texts: Jean-Claude Burgelman, Marc Nyssen, Bruno De Vuyst, Serge Gutwirth, Mirko Tobias Schäfer, Marianne Van den Boomen, Séverine Dusollier, Peter Hanappe, Bernard Rieder, Marc Nyssen, Leo Van Audenhove, Leo Van Hove, Caroline Pauwels, Bram Lievens, Jo Pierson, Jacques Vilrokx, Ilse Laurijssen, Jan Belgrado, Jean Vereecken, Frank Gielen and Frederik Questier Many thanks go to the people who supported the CROSSTALKS events and refined their concept: Dirk Tombeur, Luc De Vuyst, Michel Flamée, Theo D’Hondt, Viviane Jonckers, Dirk Vermeir, Olga De Troyer, Koen Smets, Nadine Rons, Christ’l Vereecken, Sandra Baeyens, Mieke Gijsemans, Kris van Scharen, and Monique Peeters Particular thanks go to Marnix Housen for his inspiring support in the end phase of the book We owe a lot of gratitude to Sara Engelen for her indispensable and creative dynamism Luc Steels was the backstage motivator and caterer of critical comments Furthermore we thank Veronica Kelly for enhancing this book with her wonderful and meticulous English editing, Boudewijn Bardyn for the art direction and layout, Kris van Scharen for the production and Dani Elskens for the cover design CROSSTALKS owes a great deal to the stimulation of the Head of the VUB Interface Cell, Sonja Haesen Last but not least, we thank Rector Benjamin Van Camp for his continuous support and his encouraging engagement in the CROSSTALKS activities The Editors Table of Contents Foreword & Acknowledgements Preface Marleen Wynants & Jan Cornelis 11 PART I – DRIVING FORCES: KEY PLAYERS & PROJECTS 29 Will the revolution be open-sourced? How open source travels through society Marianne van den Boomen & Mirko Tobias Schäfer Free as in Freedom, not Gratis! An interview with Richard Stallman, the embodiment of the dilemma of our digital commons Marleen Wynants The Open Source Paradigm Shift Tim O’Reilly Open Courseware and Open Scientific Publications Frederik Questier & Wim Schreurs Roots Culture - Free Software Vibrations Inna Babylon by Armin Medosch 31 69 85 111 135 Table of Contents PART II – MAKING IT HAPPEN: CASE STUDIES FROM BRUSSELS, BELGIUM, EUROPE & BEYOND 165 Extremadura and the Revolution of Free Software Achieving digital literacy and modernizing the economy of one of the European Union’s poorest regions Angel Vaca Building Open Ecosystems for Collaborative Creativity Peter Hanappe A Walk through the Music Bazaar & the Future of Music Sara Engelen Open Source, Science and Education Marc Nyssen & Frederik Cheeseman Open Standards Policy in Belgium Peter Strickx & Jean Jochmans 167 199 231 275 285 PART III - ETHICS & BOTTLENECKS 293 The Patenting of Life An interview with VUB scientist Lode Wyns about the dangers of patents in biotechnology and the pressing need for ethics in law Lode Wyns Fostering Research, Innovation and Networking Jan Cornelis Is Open-Sourced Biotechnology possible? Daniel de Beer Legal Aspects of Software Protection through Patents, and the Future of Reverse Engineering Bruno de Vuyst & Liv Steuts 295 309 357 375 How Open is the Future? PART IV – THE FUTURE IS OPEN 393 Advancing Economic Research on the Free and Open Source Software Mode of Production J.-M Dalle, P A David, Rishab A Ghosh, and W.E Steinmueller The Future of Open Source Ilkka Tuomi The Future of Software: Enabling the Marketplace to Decide Bradford L Smith Dual Licensing – A Business Model from the Second Generation of Open-Source Companies Kaj Arnö Towards a EU Policy for Open-Source Software Simon Forge 395 429 461 479 489 ANNEXES 505 I The GNU General Public License (GPL)- Version 2, June 1991 II Building Innovation through Integration A Microsoft White Paper – July 2000 507 517 Index List of Pictures 527 533 Appendix II A similar trend emerged on the software side of mainframe computing Early programs for mainframe computers were purpose-built to suit the customer’s specific data processing needs If the user wanted to perform a task, the user hired programmers to tell the computer how to it Programmers quickly realized that this was duplicative, and that by integrating components of past programs they could create general-purpose applications capable of handling different kinds of data that needed to be processed in a variety of ways This form of integration led to the modern packaged software industry With the emergence of the PC in the 1970s, a new wave of hardware integration began that extended well beyond innovation in microprocessors themselves The very first PCs had no keyboard, no monitor, and no memory that survived after the machine was turned off Turning the PC into a consumer product required linking the microprocessor with technologies for display, storage, input, and other functions Most of those technologies already existed in some form, but in other contexts The disk drive, for example, was developed by IBM for use with mainframe computers and only later integrated into the PC B Integration in PC Software The real untold story of the PC era, however, is the importance of integration in the development of PC software Time and again, software developers have created new, more powerful and more useful products by integrating functions that were once regarded as separate Word and Spell Back in the era of monochromatic screens, Microsoft Spell originated as a separate program used to analyze documents created in Microsoft Word and to notify the user of possible spelling errors Users lived with the constant hassle of switching from the word processing program to the spell checking program to identify and correct errors The program switch had to be repeated every time the document was modified, wasting time and potentially taxing the very limited computer memories of the day 520 Building Innovation through Integration Nonetheless, there was a certain functional logic in the separation Microsoft Word performed a document creation function, and Microsoft Spell performed a document analysis function Different functions, different programs Responding to consumer demand and their own increasing technical sophistication, the software developers at Microsoft, as well as at WordPerfect Corporation and other makers of word processing software, decided to bridge the functional barrier between the two programs and incorporate spellers into later versions of their word processing programs In Microsoft’s experience, integration of this analytical function into Word itself initially had a very simple benefit: It eliminated the need to switch programs This spared users considerable hassle and made the speller itself more efficient, since it no longer needed to duplicate all the infrastructure of a stand-alone program By marrying two conceptually distinct functions – document creation and document analysis – the word processor developers, probably without realizing the full implications, also created the potential for further expansion of a new hybrid functionality that combined document creation and document analysis For example, developers quickly recognized its potential for allowing users to customize the spelling dictionary, and its potential for allowing users to pause in midsentence to check the spelling of a particular word As the spell feature evolved through later versions it became more active and offered more sophisticated analysis In the case of Word, users could identify a misspelled word the moment it was typed by setting the program to underline it in red A user’s most common typographical errors could be corrected automatically by comparing them with an AutoCorrect list maintained by the user Later versions of Word analyzed grammar and syntax on the fly, identifying everything from subject-verb agreement to excessive wordiness And the most recent versions of Word incorporate an active Thesaurus with which a user can identify possible synonyms for a word simply by right-clicking on it with the mouse The incorporation of active language analysis into word processors has proven invaluable in other ways as well With this feature built in to the program, newer versions can tell what language the writer is using and adjust the spelling and grammar rules accordingly Word processing programs for pictographic languages like Chinese, which require numerous keystrokes for a single character, have been made vastly less 521 Appendix II difficult to use by enabling the computer to anticipate a small selection of possible characters based on the first few strokes The same ability to analyze language is proving crucial in the development of voice recognition software that can distinguish similar or identical vocalizations – like “two,” “to” and “too” – based on their context All these benefits have come as a direct outgrowth of the integration of document creation and document analysis They would not have happened without it The Arrow Button and Windows Integration has also influenced the development of Microsoft operating systems For example, arrow buttons in software programs began outside the operating system as a response to the navigational challenges of the Internet environment To enable users to “browse” the Web, developers had to come up with an easy way to retrace and reretrace steps without constantly reentering long Internet addresses Arrow keys provided an intuitive solution to this navigational challenge The user who wants to revisit briefly information visited five pages earlier simply clicks the “back” arrow five times To return again, the user clicks “forward” five times Developers immediately recognized that the same navigational device could work in other content-rich environments, such as in Microsoft Encarta and other electronic encyclopedias, or even in navigating through the many files and subfiles on a user’s hard drive As soon as it became clear that more than one program could use arrows, incorporating the code that makes arrows into the Windows operating system made sense as a simple memory-saving measure Serving many programs with one set of code is more efficient than having many sets of code performing the same function simultaneously But the integration of arrows into the operating system also made it easy for software developers to add arrows in any other context where navigation was required Once the facility for incorporating arrows became readily available, they began to crop up in a wide range of programs where users were confronted with the need to navigate through a large amount of information Using arrow keys was second nature – like turning the pages in a book – and consumers showed their willingness to embrace the 522 Building Innovation through Integration new interface even outside the Internet and reference contexts Indeed, the ability to navigate through a single arrow-equipped window rather than across multiple separate windows became a feature of Windows itself In this way, the benefits of a good idea born in one context quickly enriched many others The Toolbar and Windows Toolbars are yet another example of the benefits of operating system integration Spreadsheet programs were among the most powerful early applications for the PC, allowing users to record and analyze different kinds of data in a complex variety of ways But the same sophistication that made spreadsheets powerful also made them relatively difficult to use Struggling for a way to make these programs more accessible, the developers of Microsoft Excel 3.0 for Windows settled on the concept of a “toolbar” – a graphic representation of key functions like “open” and “save” that could be invoked at the click of a mouse Creating the toolbar was a difficult and time consuming programming task, but one that has produced great benefits for users Although Microsoft Excel was the first Windows-based application to include a toolbar, the possibilities that the idea held for other programs were obvious Other software makers also expended a great deal of effort creating their own versions of the same concept This was inefficient in three respects: First, developers were wasting time reinventing the wheel rather than working on new ideas Second, users were confronted with variations in toolbar design that made the user experience less fluid Third, having multiple toolbars that served the same basic purpose, each running off different source code at the same time, unnecessarily taxed the computer’s memory The efficient solution to this problem was to expand the operating system platform to provide a single set of code that would support many toolbars simultaneously Thus, when Microsoft released Windows 95, it included a new toolbar system service available to all software developers Availability of toolbars as a system service does not, of course, preclude any software maker from creating its own toolbar It simply takes a function that is inevitably present in some programs and makes it available to many other programs 523 Appendix II The initial benefit of this act of integration was simply that it addressed the inefficiencies of the old design: Developers could spend less time writing the code to support their toolbars and more time concentrating on more important functions Users working with new programs found familiar toolbars that worked in familiar ways And multiple toolbars could simultaneously rely on the same basic code, saving memory Over the longer term, however, an extremely important additional benefit was that toolbars began to appear in more and more programs The ready availability of the toolbar code encouraged developers to look for ways to expand the universe of tasks that a toolbar could help to perform As with arrow button navigation, integration of toolbar support helped developers take a useful idea developed in one context and spread its benefits to many others And, of course, consumers were the ultimate beneficiaries HTML Integration A more recent innovation came in the mid 1990s, when software developers began to apply the lessons of past integration efforts to the technologies that drive the Internet One of the fundamental technologies of the Internet was (and continues to be, at least for the moment) the programming tool known as Hypertext Markup Language, or “HTML.” At its simplest level, HTML allows web developers to link one set of information to another, thus enabling users to surf from one site to another by clicking on underlined links As with past innovations, developers began to realize that HTML offered potential applications beyond its original field In addition to Internet browsing, HTML could be used to imbed and link information in other, non-Internet applications For example, most help files for common software applications are now written in HTML, because that format best enables users to find the information they need within a large volume of text HTML can also be used to help readers navigate within large documents created in Microsoft Word, or among the files on a computer’s hard drive To support these functions, the basic HTML code has to be available to all programs Integrating HTML code into the Windows operating system made that possible 524 Building Innovation through Integration C Lessons of Integration In a world without integration, ideas developed in one context would never wander far from home If that were the case, it would place severe constraints on technological innovation A lot of time and energy would be wasted in coming up with new solutions to address the same basic problems in many different contexts Also, the number and variety of solutions would produce a great deal of unnecessary complexity, placing a heavy burden on engineers and users alike In our world today, of course, integration is virtually inseparable from technological innovation As we have seen, integration in the field of computers – and computer software in particular – has enabled developers to expand the benefits of particular innovations beyond the boundaries of a single application, creating new possibilities for innovation in other areas Without integration, we simply would not have achieved the extraordinary advances in computing that we have seen in recent decades Integration and the Future of Computing As they create new frameworks for the future of Internet computing, major software companies are again viewing integration as a crucial element of innovation Oracle Corporation, for example, recently released its new E-Business Suite 11i, which it touts as “the industry’s first fully-integrated e-Business applications suite.” The 11i suite integrates functions like web selling and supply chain management, which are now normally managed with separate software applications, into a single set of software tools Oracle Vice President Ron Wohl argues that “[w]hen given the choice, any business would prefer e-Business applications that are already integrated rather than undertake the custom integration effort themselves.” The newer and smaller dotcom companies are also using integration to drive innovation RealNetworks, Inc., for example, is less than five years old, but nonetheless a prominent practitioner of software integration Products like Real Player, Real Jukebox, and Real Download have made the company a leader in the field of online music and video through tools that help Web users discover, acquire, manage, and play audio and 525 Appendix II video content Recently, the company announced that it would for the first time offer these functions, previously relegated to different programs, within a single, integrated suite – the Real Entertainment Center The integration of new features into operating systems continues as well We have seen how the addition of new features and functions has contributed to the development of Microsoft software into a broad, rich platform The same approach has been reflected in other OS products Notable among them is Apple’s new OS X, which provides an operating system with integrated web browser, media player, address book, e-mail, and other features In the near future, both OS and application products will undoubtedly integrate additional features that are now being developed separately, including speech recognition, handwriting recognition, and protocols for consistent handling and display of data across many different formats and devices Note National Science Foundation, Research and Development in Industry: 1998 [Early Release Tables] at tbl E-9 (2000) 526 Index A C academic freedom, 331, 353 agrobiotechnology, 362, 366-367 Apache, 15, 53, 89-90, 96-97, 102, 109, 152, 433, 464, 480 ARPAnet, 16, 489 ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers), 234-235 C programming language, 276, 432 Cage John, 238 Celera Genomics, 365 Christensen, 91-92, 94, 96 C language, 453 closed-source, 57, 434, 440-441, 449, 454, 456, 467, 480-481, 484-486 co-ownership, 288 copyleft, 14, 17, 45, 51, 60, 69, 71-72, 119-121, 143, 150, 162, 256-258, 366, 493 copyright, 19, 24, 26, 34, 40, 45, 51, 53, 60, 70-72, 78, 111-123, 125-126, 129-131, 146-147, 200201, 206, 226-228, 232, 234, 237, 240-247, 249, 251, 255-257, 261, 265-266, 359, 366, 375-377, 382-387, 390, 418, 476, 479-482, 484, 508-509, 512-515 Creative Commons, 13, 71, 81, 121-122, 125-126, 129, 201, 208, 210-211, 227, 256-257, 268 Creative Commons Licence, 5, 51, 111-112, 122, 130, 208, 210, 212 CROSSTALKS, 5-6, 17-18, 27, 70, 81, 85, 197, 272, 310, 324, 335-337 CSS companies (closed-source software companies), 484-485 B Babbage Charles, 105 backward compatibility, 239, 492 Bell Labs, 95, 275 Berne Convention, 113, 116, 131, 375-376 Berners-Lee Tim, 102 biotechnology, 22-23, 295-297, 306-307, 330, 357-359, 361, 363, 365, 367-369, 371 BitTorrent, 218, 433 black box, 43, 280 BRCA (BReast CAncer), 297, 301, 304 Bruns Axel, 267, 272 BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution), 95, 120, 138, 258, 464, 475-476 Burroughs William, 237 527 Index D da Vinci Leonardo, 11-12 Debian, 94, 192, 197, 206-207, 457 digital commons, 51, 69, 314 digital democratization, 184 Digital Literacy Plan, 178, 184, 188 Digital Rights Management, 111, 115, 132, 205, 453 DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act), 242243, 261-262, 384 Dot.com, 466 dual licensing, 26, 456, 479, 481-483, 486 dub, 148-150, 158 Dyne:bolic, 154-155, 161 E eBay, 91, 99-100, 103-105, 214 ECMA (European Computer Manufacturers Association), 472-473 EcoScene, 219, 223 ecosystem, 25, 94, 199-200, 205-206, 209, 215, 219, 223, 461, 469, 474-475, 482, 484 Edison Thomas, 203, 233 e-government, 22, 286 Einstürzende Neubauten, 217, 228 ElectronicScene, 200, 213 Emacs, 71, 83, 431 EPC (European Patent Convention), 375, 379-383, 389 EU Copyright Directive of 2001, 113, 117 European Commission, 26, 34, 36, 40, 60, 132, 169, 258, 321-322, 372, 375, 387-389, 407, 426, 455, 459, 490, 502 F Fanning Shawn, 241 Fano Robert, 430-431, 457 528 file-sharing networks, 139, 218, 233, 249, 253 first Copyright Act, 112 Fofito, 219, 221-222 Forrester Research, 57 Fortress Europe, 297, 301 FOSDEM, 70-71 FOSS (Free/Open Source Software), 12, 20, 24, 36, 168-169, 182, 186-188, 192, 196, 206-213, 215-219, 224-226 Fountains of goods, 444 free culture, 37, 51, 233, 242 free inquiry, 23, 312-313 free licences, 112, 119-121, 126, 130 free rider, 469 free software, 14-16, 18-20, 36, 41, 44-48, 50-52, 63, 69-76, 78-82, 88, 92, 95-97, 106, 109, 111, 120-121, 126, 135, 137, 139-141, 143, 145, 147, 149-151, 153, 155-159, 161-162, 167169, 171, 173, 175, 177, 179, 181, 183, 185, 187, 189, 191, 193, 195, 197, 202, 206, 226, 255, 258, 265, 280-281, 312, 357-358, 422423, 431, 474, 507-508, 512-514 Free Software Foundation, 45, 47, 50-51, 61, 70, 120, 226, 228-229, 431, 475, 481, 507, 512514 Free Software Movement, 14, 18, 63, 69-74, 76, 81, 232, 251, 312-313, 357, 370 FreshMeat, 121, 408 fundamental research, 23, 296, 309, 311, 315-317, 319-320, 323, 325, 340, 346, 351, 353 G Garageband, 236, 239, 255, 257, 268 Gardner Joy, 152, 161 gatekeepers, 213, 255 Gates Bill, 11, 37, 54, 98 General Public License (GPL), 13, 33, 41, 45, 120, 140, 431, 462, 507-508, 512, 514-515 GIMP, 154, 161 How Open is the Future? GNU, 14-15, 44-45, 67, 69-73, 83, 97, 120-122, 127, 135, 140, 154, 187, 192, 194, 206, 229, 258, 276-279, 357, 407, 431-432, 438, 444, 447, 452-453, 462, 475, 507, 509, 511, 513515 GNU C compiler, 97, 276 GNU Free Documentation License, 121, 127 GNU/Linux, 15, 45, 70-73, 121, 135, 140, 154, 187, 192, 194, 206, 258, 438 gnuLinEx, 169, 185, 187-188, 192, 194-195, 197 Gnutella, 227, 232, 244 Google, 88, 91-92, 100, 104-105, 147 Grateful Dead, 236 Gutenberg project, 16 intellectual property rights, 24, 111, 113-114, 116, 119, 132, 333, 339, 361, 363, 369, 372, 390, 414, 418, 469, 491 IP, 93, 96, 143, 332, 464-465, 469, 476 iPod, 106, 249-250 iTunes Music store, 226, 250 K Kay Alan, 107, 109, 180-181, 195-197, 216 KaZaA, 232, 244, 249 Kepler Johannes, 187 Kuhn Thomas, 86, 107-109, 146, 160 L H hacker culture, 32, 36, 44, 48, 51-52, 63, 136, 139 Hacker Survey, 208, 212, 228 HapMap Project, 366 Hardin Garrett, 13-14, 371 Harraway Donna, 141, 146, 159 Harwood Graham, 151, 154, 159, 161 Hippel von Eric, 367-368, 411, 420, 423, 443, 455, 458 HTML, 89, 102, 152, 209, 216, 222, 285, 333, 417, 524 Hubbard Tim, 365-366 Human Genome project, 16, 302 Latour Bruno, 42, 54, 64-66 Lessig Lawrence, 37, 51-52, 66, 101, 215, 228, 233, 242, 256, 266, 268-269, 272, 476 Lin Nan, 202, 214, 227-228 Linux, 15, 17, 32-37, 39-41, 45-46, 48-50, 53-54, 56-61, 65-66, 70-73, 88-89, 91-92, 94-95, 101, 103, 109, 121, 135, 140, 152, 154, 187, 192, 194, 206, 213, 248, 250, 258, 276-280, 337, 403-404, 410, 420, 422-423, 431-433, 436-439, 445, 449, 452, 454-459, 466, 474, 480, 495, 500 Lions John, 280, 282 M I IBM, 18, 65, 85-87, 91, 93, 105, 140, 226, 252, 357, 433, 449, 466, 519-520 Icotec, 199-200, 211, 213, 225 IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), 101-102, 472 I-mode, 408 Magnatune, 200, 208, 211 Maurer Stephen, 368, 372 McLuhan Marshall, 54, 66, 231, 267 memetic engineering, 48 MERIT/Infonomics, 403, 421 Merlot, 126 Microsoft, 32-36, 39, 48-49, 53-61, 65, 85-87, 8991, 94, 98, 102, 105-106, 140, 154, 252, 357- 529 Index 358, 369, 421, 433, 448, 455, 457, 466-467, 470, 472-477, 517, 520-524, 526 Microsoft’s Shared Source initiative, 58, 466 MINIX, 15, 280, 454, 456 MIT OpenCourseWare, 125-126 Moglen Eben, 34, 51-52, 62, 65-66, 140, 370 Mongrel, 151-153, 155 MP3, 123, 200, 211, 215, 223, 240-243, 249-251, 257-258, 268-269 MPEG (Motion Picture Experts Group), 216, 341 MUDDA (Magnificent Union of Digitally Downloading Artists), 253, 270 MySQL, 25, 152, 226, 433, 449, 456, 479-486 N Napster, 78, 97, 103, 105, 232, 241-248, 254, 267, 269-270 Netscape, 48-49, 89, 102 Newton Isaac, 141, 187, 296 Nine9, 153-154, 161 O O’Mahony, 443-444, 454, 458 O’Reilly Media, 37 O’Reilly Tim, 5, 18, 85, 97, 109, 248, 253, 268 OAL (Open Audio License), 256 Occam’s razor, 485 open content, 125-126, 129-130, 132 open courseware, 19, 111-113, 115, 117, 119, 121, 123, 125, 127, 129, 131 open ecosystems, 20, 199-201, 203, 205, 207, 209211, 213, 215, 217-219, 221, 223, 225, 227, 229 open epistemic communities, 398 open source, 13, 16-17, 19-21, 25, 31-42, 46, 49, 51, 57-59, 61-62, 65, 76, 85, 88, 90-91, 93, 9598, 100-103, 105-108, 140, 143, 168, 187-188, 215, 229, 250, 265, 275, 279, 281, 302, 337, 365, 397-401, 404-405, 408, 411, 413, 415- 530 417, 419, 422-425, 429, 434-435, 439, 441449, 451-455, 461, 463-464, 466-467, 469, 473-474, 479-480, 483, 485 open standards, 22, 62, 90, 102, 143, 281, 285, 287-289, 313-314, 472-473, 495 open university, 499 open-source movement, 12-13, 15, 18, 25, 33, 43, 56, 58, 62, 71, 76, 106, 254, 267, 310, 357-358, 364, 369, 414, 429, 431, 436, 448, 489 open-source software, 12, 14, 18, 20, 24-26, 3334, 36-39, 41, 52-53, 57-59, 61, 63, 70, 81, 87, 90, 92-93, 97, 109, 119, 140, 143, 153, 187, 201-202, 206, 226, 233, 251, 257-258, 264, 270, 281-282, 286, 288, 302, 310, 313-314, 337, 395-399, 401, 403, 405, 407, 409, 411, 413-415, 417-419, 421, 423, 425, 430, 433, 440, 444, 449-450, 452, 457-459, 461-463, 466-467, 473-474, 476, 479-484, 489-491, 493-495, 497, 499, 501-503 P P2P, 103, 244-247, 253-254, 262, 267 paradigm shift, 18, 85-89, 91, 93, 95, 97, 99, 101, 103, 105, 107-109, 337 patent, 11, 22-24, 40, 60-61, 74-75, 77, 90, 131, 266, 295-304, 306, 318-319, 331-333, 359364, 366-367, 375-379, 381-384, 386-389, 493-494, 503, 508, 511 patent system, 75, 77, 359, 361, 371, 382 patents, 11, 24, 34-35, 40, 51, 60-62, 71, 73-77, 147, 281, 295-304, 306, 332, 339, 359, 361364, 366-367, 369, 372, 375, 377, 379, 381383, 385-391, 490, 493-494, 497, 508, 512 peer-to-peer networking, 231, 267, 418 Perl, 15, 96-97, 102-104, 109, 433 piracy, 161-162, 237, 239-242, 245-249, 251, 255, 388, 418 Presley Elvis, 235, 239 How Open is the Future? proprietary, 12-13, 18, 25-26, 42, 44-45, 47, 53, 58, 69, 71, 73-75, 81-82, 87-93, 95-96, 98-99, 102, 108, 120-121, 125, 132, 155, 186-188, 226, 238, 252, 257-258, 280-282, 288-289, 310, 313-314, 326, 396, 398, 407, 414, 417, 421, 423-424, 429, 431, 434-435, 438, 444445, 457, 462, 466, 474, 484, 493-494, 497, 508, 515 protecting versus sharing, 304 protection of databases, 116 Public Library of Science (PLoS), 128-129 Pure Data, 157, 161, 258, 268, 271 R Rai Arti, 368, 372 Rand, 141 Rastafari, 136-137, 139, 148, 151, 158 Raymond Eric, 34, 43, 46-50, 62, 65-66, 89, 93, 100, 106, 109, 140, 229, 233, 250, 370, 409, 420, 423, 455, 458 Reboot.fm, 233, 263-266, 268, 271-272 Red Hat, 33, 35, 53, 85, 90-91, 94, 194, 466 research management, 309, 311-313, 315, 317319, 327, 342, 350-351 RIAA (Recording Industry of America Association), 116, 226, 229, 232, 237-238, 242-245, 247, 253-255 Rifkin Jeremy, 215, 224-225, 229 Roche, 298, 303 Rojo Dennis (aka jaromil), 154, 161 Slashdot, 38, 61, 71 Sleepycat, 480 social learning, 438, 451 software patents, 34-35, 40, 60-61, 71, 73-76, 281, 382-383, 386, 389, 490, 493-494, 497, 502, 508 sound systems, 149-150 SourceForge, 37, 58, 121, 206, 211, 257, 404-406, 408, 422-423 spin-offs, 303-304, 332-333 Stallman Richard, 5, 13-14, 16, 18, 43-47, 49-50, 58, 69-73, 75, 77, 79, 81, 83, 95, 97, 120, 135, 138, 140, 155, 229, 232, 248, 256, 312, 357, 365, 370, 415, 431, 447, 475 Steiner Rudolf, 13 strategic research, 23, 311, 313, 316, 319-320, 322-323, 328-329, 338-342, 346, 349, 353 Stutz David, 89-90, 106, 108 SuSe, 94, 108 Symbolics, 69 T Tanenbaum Andrew, 280, 282, 456 Torvalds Linus, 15, 33-34, 36-37, 44-45, 47, 49-50, 57, 62, 83, 101, 213, 227, 229, 248, 432 trademarks, 71, 74, 116, 131, 480, 484 tragedy of the anti-commons, 300 Tragedy of the Commons, 13-14, 362, 371 Tramiel Jack, 175, 196 TRIPS, 24, 113, 375-376, 382-383, 386-388, 498 Tropical Disease Initiative, 368, 372 S U Salk Jonas, 295 Savannah, 408 2GOSS companies (second-generation source software companies), 484-485 Sendmail, 15, 89, 96, 102, 109, 433 Seti@home, 98, 105 open- UCITA (Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act), 384-385, 390 Unix, 14-15, 44-45, 47, 70, 85, 89, 95-96, 101, 135, 154, 275-276, 278, 280, 414, 431, 436-438, 452-453, 466, 472, 475 531 Index V Vicom, 379 ViverNet, 189-190, 195 W Web Consortium, 216 Weber Steven, 38, 209, 229, 420, 455, 459 weblog, 38 Wi-Fi, 262-263 532 Wikipedia, 16-17, 81, 103, 112, 127, 130, 195, 227 Windows, 5, 32-33, 35, 39, 54, 59, 90, 101, 105, 154, 265, 276-279, 337, 357, 456, 467, 472, 474, 477, 522-524 WTO (World Trade Organization), 302, 375, 498 W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), 90, 472, 477 X XML, 98, 285, 417, 472 List of Pictures p 10 No Trespassing – Copyright 2002 Daniel J Williams, Glennmoore, Pennsylvania p 134 Hasciicam - jaromil, dyne.org rasta coder, http://rastasoft.org All other pictures by Marleen Wynants: PART I p 30 p 68 p 84 p 110 Make Art, Not War – Chambers Street, New York, 2004 Emack & Bolio’s Icecream Parlour - 54 Cooper Square, New York, 2004 Halp! Earthquake - Chambers Street, New York, 2004 Fix your own bike – Animation stand Battery Park, New York, 2004 PART II p 166 p 198 p 230 p 274 p 284 Noseman – near Warren St, New York, 2004 Put things back, you’re not alone – AI Lab VUB Brussels, 2004 Piper drummer, Bridge Of Allan, Highland Games, Scotland, 2004 Cycling, Walking, Skating, Running – West Street, New York, 2004 Pourquoi les Bruxellois, Rue de Noyer, Brussels, 1983 533 How Open is the Future? PART III p 294 No Standing Anytime – Battery Park City, New York, 2004 p 308 Rector St – New York, 2004 p 356 Luckily, there is a better way - Citibank Building, Broadway at Chambers St, New York, 2004 p 374 Abolish Alienation – near Murray St, New York, 2004 PART IV p 394 Everything cometh… citation by Charlie Chan – near West Broadway, New York, 2004 p 428 Bicycles Skateboards Roller Bladers – Liberty St, World Financial Center, New York, 2004 p 460 Soho door, New York, 2004 p 478 No tourists beyond this point – Woolworth Building, Broadway at Barclay St, New York, 2004 p 488 Caution Shared Path - South End Avenue, New York, 2004 534 ... Wynants & Jan Cornelis (Eds) How Open is the Future? Economic, Social & Cultural Scenarios inspired by Free & Open- Source Software The contents of this book not reflect the views of the VUB,... perspectives inspired by the free and open- source spirit A complete version of How Open is the Future? is available under a Creative Commons licence at http://crosstalks.vub.ac.be How Open is the Future?... and there are open- source projects in law and religion There are Open- Source P (calculating Pi), Open- Source Movies, OpenSource Recipes, Open- Source Propaganda, Open- Source Crime Solving, Open- Source