Tim O’Reilly, Eben Moglen, and Jane Jacobs

“Tim O’Reilly tried interviewing Eben Moglen on licensing in the ‘Web 2.0′ era as one of the sessions at the O’Reilly Radar Executive Briefing. I believe his intent was to expand the discussion he began a year ago when he suggested ‘open source licenses are obsolete.’

“Unfortunately, Eben went on the attack. Indeed, he made it personal. And it was in poor enough taste that many of the excellent ideas he delivered on the need for a second order debate and tools to deal with conflicts in rights were lost…”
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