FOSS Notes

STAGE ONE

• Motivations
  • We have these three ideas of the movement. Gift econoimcs. Market economics. A cultural movement. Let's get Mako talking on this.
• Proposition: writing free software and working for a proprietary software company is analogous to doing academic research and working R&D for a corporation.
• Proposition: All of the grand ideas of gift economics really just collapse into market economics. Lerner. (In the beginning, this was *the* explanation. Has it been subsumed by a cultural analysis of the movement?)
• Paradoxes of the FOSS movement
  • Stallman v. Raymond
  • Inclusive movement v. Elitist

STAGE TWO

• What are the characteristics of a (1) successful FOSS project, (2) successful FOSS process?

(give a spiel on CATB)

• Isn't it bizarre that a movement that, in some sense, attempts to destroy IP in software, is so heavily dependent on IP law? It seems pretty interested in the law -- can we speculate as to why this is so?

STAGE THREE

• Regarding open source governance, what are the characteristics we've learned about projects and processes that make open source development successsful?
• Mako on the GPL v3 development process
• If we wanted to create an open source law project, how would it work?