[KLUG Advocacy] Re: Decency Standards for Open Source

[Kevin Wixson]

Jamie McCarthy wrote:

>No, it's wrong.  Censorship by non-governmental entities is also an important concern, and in this country, is more of a practical concern than whatever the government does.  We have a First Amendment that greatly limits the damage that governmental censorship can do;  to handwave away everything else leaves me wondering what kind of free speech idealist the writer is.
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Note:   "or small but vocal special interest,"

>I didn't really get very far into reading the piece.  It lost me in the third sentence which started "However, as the concept of open source branches out beyond software."  I think the author may have been wanting to talk about Creative Commons projects, or similar ways to license creative works under open terms.  But "open source"
>is for software  <http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php>
>so I'm left wondering whether the author was just using the wrong terminology or maybe was writing about stuff like this:
><http://www.durak.org/sean/pubs/kfc/>
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Note: "as the _concept_ of open source branches out beyond software"

-Kevin