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TechTalk: Open Source And Digital Trends

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TechTalk
Date
1 October 2007
Length
43 min

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In this episode of TechTalk, presenter Tim and guests Dominik and Ross Pat Sells discuss the landscape of open source software. Dominik shares experiences from a Barcelona conference and explains the distinction between 'free as in beer' and 'free as in speech'. The recording also covers net neutrality, digital photography tips, and the initial sales of Microsoft's Halo 3.

In this recording from TechTalk, presenter Tim and guests including Dominik and Ross Pat Sells discuss the landscape of open source software. Dominik shares experiences from a Barcelona conference and explains the distinction between 'free as in beer' and 'free as in speech', noting the use of Linux in the 'one laptop per child' project and Drupal in sites like MTV.co.uk. The conversation covers the role of open source in government agencies and the internet's reliance on Linux, Apache, and MySQL. Later, Ross discusses net neutrality and digital photography tips, while mentioning the high initial sales of Microsoft's Halo 3.

Topics

  • Open source software vs freeware
  • The technical shift from static web pages to database-driven sites
  • The societal reliance on computers and the internet
  • Open source software and net neutrality
  • Digital photography tips
  • Methods for staying updated with tech news via RSS

Participants

  • Dominik
  • Ross Pat Sells
  • Tim
  • Dries Bertal
  • Ross

Names are taken from the archive as written and may include spelling variants.

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But it's good it's coming out to third world countries and be helping. Yeah, and this is a great example, another example of an open source project because the the software that this one laptop per child project uses is Linux.

NASA is a taxpayer-funded government agency, and so it really belongs to the people that pay for it. In in my view, and when you build software and as part of an open-source collaborative software development process, it belongs to everybody as well. And so I think that it makes much more sense, sort of philosophically, as well as.

Net neutrality, so that somebody cannot say, "Well, we provide you internet, but you can only watch movies from our partners, or you can only go to websites from people who paid us money." And that would be a real problem. And that I think something that we should really, so strenuously, watch over.

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