[beyond-licensing] quick review of scope, resources, and goals

[Danese Cooper]

The tractor story was Brian Behlendorf's. He was talking about John Deere's new policy. As Chairman of the EFF Board, he hears many such stories, I'm guessing.

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> On Apr 20, 2016, at 8:23 PM, Karl Fogel <kfogel at red-bean.com> wrote:
> 
> Alicia Gibb <alicia at oshwa.org> writes:
>> A big part of the discussion was including things that didn't only
>> involve software, but data and hardware as well (and sometimes void
>> of software). Someone (I think Karl) gave examples of the tractor
>> data that is "leased" from and under the DMCA act, so farmers can no
>> longer share data across fields. I would love to see a revolt of
>> farmers developing their own open source hardware tractors from OSE -
> 
> Minor point: that example was from someone else (wish I could take credit for it, because it's a great example, but it wasn't me!)
> 
> Totally +1 on the agrarian revolt, of course.
> 
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