On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Christian Theune <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<< SNIP >> > > The second is Van Lindberg. Van is a Python programmer and also a > > lawyer at a US law firm. He gave a keynote at PyCon this month, also > > about copyright, showing how it works, what it's for, its history and > > its problems. > > I liked his presentation. In fact I thought it was the best keynote at PyCon > actually. > > Christian > I thought the talk was topical (well suited to a Pycon, though borderline not because not about Python per se, more OSCONish in flavor) and well prepared and delivered. I personally get impatient with the whole way economist-lawyers think (prisoners dilemma, tragedy of the commons, free rider problem), think economics needs competition from competing disciplines (general systems theory anyone?), think lawyers have been way too slow getting behind open source, are only doing it now because they have no choice (so now all of a sudden it "makes sense" whereas before we were "dot commies") but that's just my griping, not reflecting on the speaker per se. He also didn't seem all that aware of the ethnic subcultural aspects of patent, other intellectual property law, i.e. it's all pretty broken in the US and only idiot nations would attempt to carbon copy what's so abysmally not working, again my personal opinion. But he never claimed to be offering recipes for others to copy (we already have a surfeit of open source licenses). Kirby _______________________________________________ EuroPython mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython
