Re: [DotGNU]Open Source's Dot-Net Less Open

[Seth Johnson]

It's an "anticipatory intimation."  LOL

The corporate interests that leaned on Miguel, didn't have
to be explicit about any aspirations they have to build a
content control infrastructure -- only to appeal to a
certain "open source pragmatism" to get the GPL out of that
picture.

The GPL emphasis on transparency goes against the aspiration
to offer a toll stream, via content control, to the
"content" industries.  I'm not speaking strictly
technically, about whether you can link to a library or
conform with an open standard -- the point has more to do
with establishing market power and rationalizing "IP" law,
after which consumer pragmatism takes over, buttressed by
certain illusory moral imperatives having to do with
authorship.

I won't call this just intuition -- I have a lot of
confidence in the idea -- but describing it is difficult. 
How did I do?  LOL

Seth Johnson

Norbert Bollow wrote:
> 
> Seth,
>   I totally agree that issues related to content control are of
> key strategic importance, and that Microsoft is fully aware
> of this, perhaps more than others.  However I don't see how
> this would have anything to do with the license change of those
> C# class libs.
> 
> Greetings, Norbert.
> 
> > Yes, sorry, but I was browsing old messages last night.  I
> > think the problem of content control gets tiptoed around a
> > bit.  But I think that .Net is hanging its hat on the
> > prospect of establishing content control, so Microsoft can
> > sell its DRM OS, more than most anything else.
> >
> > Seth Johnson
> >
> >
> > Norbert Bollow wrote:
> > >
> > > > What statement are you folks refering to?  I can't
> > > > fins the previous messages.
> > >
> > > The statement was something like Intel and HP being able to
> > > contribute to the Mono C# class libs only after the license of
> > > those libs was changed to a non-copyleft license.
> 
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