[governance] Maybe something good might come out of all of this

[Ian Peter]

I don’t really know the downsides but I thought the article was interesting. We have a long way to go to get fully open source hardware, chips etc to go with reasonably good software OS platforms .But it was interesting that the article saw this as a future possibility for corporations.

And as friends have pointed out to me, open source is not invulnerable. But I do think there are possibilities here that might be useful and this could become a significant trend if faith in major vendors is not restored.

Ian Peter



From: michael gurstein 
Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 2:35 PM
To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org ; 'Ian Peter' 
Subject: RE: [governance] Maybe something good might come out of all of this

Thanks for this Ian… It seems to me to be an interesting and reasonable approach and even something that CS could look to include in it's PRISM/surveillance policy response framework…

 

I'm wondering what the downsides might be?

 

M

 

From: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org [mailto:governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org] On Behalf Of Ian Peter
Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 2:20 AM
To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org
Subject: [governance] Maybe something good might come out of all of this

 

Interesting article on open source futures in response to PRISM et al

 

 

If we're at a point where no piece of commercial hardware or software can be trusted, then the only reasonable option is to rely on large communities of like-minded people to develop, extend, and inspect freely available code on a continuous basis. Essentially, we may need to open source everything.” 

 

http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-center/the-coming-push-open-source-everything-223011?source=IFWNLE_nlt_daily_pm_2013-07-22

 

 



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