<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:16px;">> <span style="color:rgb(235, 235, 235);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(46, 49, 53);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline !important;"><span class="font" style="font-family:-apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="size" style="font-size:13.125px;">But I've also seen on multiple occasions that attorneys are just as creative and solution-minded as engineers, if not more, so I wouldn't be surprised if there were ways to pull this off.</span></span></span><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:16px;"><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:16px;"><span style="color:rgb(235, 235, 235);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(46, 49, 53);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline !important;"><span class="font" style="font-family:-apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="size" style="font-size:13.125px;">IOW, "nerd harder".</span></span></span><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:16px;"><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:16px;"><span style="color:rgb(235, 235, 235);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(46, 49, 53);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline !important;"><span class="font" style="font-family:-apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="size" style="font-size:13.125px;">No.</span></span></span><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:16px;"><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:16px;"><span style="color:rgb(235, 235, 235);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(46, 49, 53);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline !important;"><span class="font" style="font-family:-apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="size" style="font-size:13.125px;">Some people here seem to think that "ethical licenses" solve a problem that needs solving. Not everyone who otherwise spent time/labor/blood/treasure solving the open source problem agrees. Many many people agree that open source is not the forum or mechanism for solving other problems that other people think are important.</span></span></span><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:16px;"><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:16px;"><span style="color:rgb(235, 235, 235);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(46, 49, 53);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline !important;"><span class="font" style="font-family:-apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="size" style="font-size:13.125px;">The purpose of open source, open source licenses, the open source community, and the OSI are to solve the "proprietary software hoarding" problem / "why cant we collaborate together on software development together" problem. Period.</span></span></span><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:16px;"><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:16px;"><span style="color:rgb(235, 235, 235);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(46, 49, 53);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline !important;"><span class="font" style="font-family:-apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="size" style="font-size:13.125px;">I mean, if I was asked to name problems that *I* want to be solved with intellectual property law, I would name data accountability, personal privacy, documentation of protocols, standards compliance, death to patent trolls, and disengagement from the patent wars. But even those probably are not best solved by forcing a new meaning on "open source".</span></span></span><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:16px;"><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:16px;"><span style="color:rgb(235, 235, 235);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(46, 49, 53);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline !important;"><span class="font" style="font-family:-apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="size" style="font-size:13.125px;">There are important social problems to be be argued about, and then possibly solved. But not using the labor that was invested in solving THIS problem, and certainly not by putting this solved problem at risk. Go build those various "community to empower authors" communities... elsewhere.</span></span></span><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:16px;"><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:16px;"><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:16px;">Mark Atwood <<a href="mailto:atwoodm@amazon.com">atwoodm@amazon.com</a>><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:16px;">keybase.io/fallenpegasus</div><div id="sig20395981"><div>+1-206-604-2198<br></div></div><div style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:16px;"><br></div></body></html>