Proposed Charter for OpenSource^WTools WG
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Olaf Kolkman
olaf at NLnetLabs.nl
Tue Oct 16 10:27:58 CEST 2012
On Oct 15, 2012, at 6:57 PM, Shane Kerr <shane at time-travellers.org> wrote: > Open source developers (including me) have said "we would like a place > to discuss open source tools within RIPE". > > I have not heard any proprietary developers say the same. I don't know > why, but I guess because they already have plenty of venues to connect > with users and each other. I believe this is a reasonable argument. In this context I wondered what is so specific about the tools that makes it necessary to call out the nature of the distribution license. Jim summarized my question quite succinct: Isn't this a working group to discuss tools, exchange ideas, and approaches? The question that I am trying to answer for myself is what is the primitive that you are trying to capture with the strong emphasis on Open Source. I think what you wrote above, and what I've seen in thread, contains part of the answer: there is a cooperative and bottom-up mindset with and between the developers and users of these tools, a different type of relation than the traditional proprietary vendor-custommer relation. Oh, by the way, if we are going to exchange ideas about implementation, do we need an IPR policy? --Olaf NLnet Labs Olaf M. Kolkman www.NLnetLabs.nl olaf at NLnetLabs.nl Science Park 400, 1098 XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-list/attachments/20121016/5f30d04a/attachment.html>
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