Is Microsoft starting to ``get'' Open Source a little bit better? Will the current economic woes help Open Source development?Information about the NOOSS' Open Source Advocacy plan.
Openness ... How does John Locke appear in a discussion of Open Source and software/patent discussions.
From the Openness discussion, here are a few links:
Two Treatises of Government, John Locke.
On Liberty, John Stuart Mill
The Philosophy of Intellectual Property, Justin Hughes.
http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/tfisher/music/Hughes1988.htmlTheories of Intellectual Property, William Fisher
http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/tfisher/iptheory.html