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Join us for the GPLv3 CAOS Webinar
Jay Lyman, February 14, 2008 @ 4:04 pm ETYou may have heard about the report, but now, thanks to the power of the Internet, The 451 Group’s CAOS practice is proud to present our Webcast on Report Six: GPLv3 – Liberation or limitation?.
The Webinar will give attendees a sense of our take on the latest iteration of the GNU General Public License and what it means for developers, projects, vendors and users. We will also be providing an opportunity to ask some questions, and the Webinar should prove useful to the many people and organizations affected by the license and its adoption.
You can register here for the Webinar, to be held next Wednesday, February 20, from 12 noon-1pm Eastern. We hope you can join us.
Comments (4) Categories: Software
With all due respect, this is a joke, right? The Webcast would only work using a proprietary software platforms. It’s ironic, isn’t it?
Hi Roy – you can still dial into the webinar via phone and listen in. We’d be willing to send you the slides, in advance.
Thanks, Raven. I appreciate the response.
It remains a bit worrisome for a a couple of reasons:
Reason 1 is that that you are analysts who concentrate on open source software, which the Webcasting facility of chose is inherently incompatible with.
Reason 2 is that you host a very important disucssion about Free software (GPL) while at the same time shutting out those who probably care the most and are also affected the most.
I can envision more of these faces and voices that say that open source is not ready because “you can’t do Web stuff” and I continue to worry whenever I see ‘us’ doing this to ourselves. This isn’t an isolated incidents, so I chose to speak out. I saw an almost identical story about 10 days ago. I won’t name the company or the person involved.
Please understand that I am not against proprietary software. I use Flash and I used to be using MATLAB when I programmed more frequently. I do, however, use GNU/Linux on all my PCs and situations such as this make it unnecessarily more cumbersome.
Let us set an example by ensuring that we don’t ‘pull an iPlayer’ on our peers. Sam Varghese wrote a good article about this topic when ZDNet released videos of Linus Torvalds speaking. They used Flash (version 8+ required) before Adobe made version 9 available for GNU/Linux (there was never a version 8). Essentially, Linux users were not able to very the founder of Linux. This is more serious than failing to provide something like Ogg for Richard Stallman or Eben Moglen to view their /own/ interviews because in this latter case it’s a matter of philosophy, not just practicality (technical limitations).
I don’t mean to sound harsh and I sincerely apologise in advance.
Thanks for the wonderful analysis that you do.
Understood. The short answer is that an entirely different department in our company picks the webinar technology. Open source is one of many topics we cover as a firm, so our Marketing department isn’t going to share the same sensitivity to multi-platform support (in this case, Linux). Jay and I are going to take this issue up and see if we can get a solution for the next webinar.
In the meantime, I hope you dial-in, and we can send you the slides, in advance. Send Jay an email – jay.lyman@the451group.com.