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

Karl Fogel kfogel at red-bean.com
Wed Apr 20 19:23:34 UTC 2016


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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