A Fool's Wisdom » What have you done about it http://foolswisdom.com A fool and his blog are soon parted. Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:39:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Licensing is the suck! http://foolswisdom.com/licensing-is-the-suck/ http://foolswisdom.com/licensing-is-the-suck/#comments Thu, 27 Jul 2006 23:59:13 +0000 Lloyd http://www.foolswisdom.com/~lloyd/wordpress/index.php/licensing-is-the-suck/ Continue reading →]]> As I recently wrote the obvious, “licensing is legal, and legal things are complex”. I should have wrote, licensing is the suck!

When ever I start thinking about licensing and it being the suck, I think to Lawrence Lessig‘s keynote presentation at the annual Open Source Convention (OSCON) made on July 24, 2002. My favorite parts are:

  • Creativity and innovation always builds on the past.
  • The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it.
  • Free societies enable the future by limiting this power of the past.
  • Ours is less and less a free society.

O’Reilly Network — Free Culture: Lawrence Lessig Keynote from OSCON 2002

I highly recommend reading, hearing, or viewing the whole talk about a lot more than licensing that Lessig has given more than 100 times. It speaks to why licensing is the suck and presents some of the largest issues facing civilization today.

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