My essay asserting that open source projects aren’t about giving stuff away for free is now available from the Essays section.
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☂ Essays Now Creative Commons Licensed
Posted on November 19, 2010 by Simon Phipps
I had a request on Identica to make one of my essays available under a Creative Commons licence so it could be translated. I thought that was such a good idea I’ve now applied a Creative Commons licence to the whole Essays section. I’d welcome any translations and will gladly post them alongside the originals with attribution.
Sharp-eyed free-culture mavens will note I have used CC-BY-SA-NC. I’m actually perfectly happy for commercial uses, but past bad experience with a certain commercial user exploiting my work in a way I regarded as unethical have left me wanting to check each commercial use in advance. It’s entirely possible I can be talked out of this, but the distaste for that episode remains strong.
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☂ H.264 Essay Posted
Posted on November 16, 2010 by Simon Phipps
My essay unpacking the meaning of ‘free’ H.264 licensing is now available in the Essays section. It provides a case study in why apparently fair “Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory” (RAND) terms for licensing patents in standards actually have the potential to be costly and obstructive for software developers and a barrier to software freedom.
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☂ Freedom Means Value Essay Posted
Posted on November 12, 2010 by Simon Phipps
My essay explaining that software freedom means business value is now available from the Essays section.
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☂ Community Escrow Essay Posted
Posted on November 10, 2010 by Simon Phipps
My essay on Community Escrow, one of the differentiating features of open source software, is now available in the Essays section.
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☂ Open Core Essay Posted
Posted on November 5, 2010 by Simon Phipps
My essay on the open core business model is now available in the Essays section.
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☂ DRM Essay Posted
Posted on November 3, 2010 by Simon Phipps
My essay explaining why DRM (Digital Restriction Measures) are toxic to culture is now available in the Essays section.
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☂ Compliance Essay Published
Posted on October 27, 2010 by Simon Phipps
My essay on open source license compliance for end users is now available in the essays section.
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☂ Why Open Source Is Free
Posted on September 28, 2010 by Simon Phipps
My classic (read: several years old) essay on Payment At The Point Of Value has finally made it on to the Essays page on this site. Now that community-centric open source is once again returning to centre stage, PPV is a relevant concept to understand the roles different community members play in relation to the software, and especially the different freedoms they are exploiting – beyond free-as-zero-price.
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✍ Community Types Essay
Posted on September 13, 2010 by Simon Phipps
My essay on Community Types is now available in the Essays section of the site. It defines what I mean by terms like “co-developer” and “deployer-developer” when I use them in conversation.
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