The Context: Open Source Fighting COVID-19

Episode 13 April 21, 2020 00:18:20
The Context: Open Source Fighting COVID-19
The Context Podcast - David Orban
The Context: Open Source Fighting COVID-19

Apr 21 2020 | 00:18:20

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Show Notes

Society wants to incentivise creativity and private enterprise.

Copyrights patents and trademarks have emerged as a protection of what we today call intellectual property.

There are plenty of examples when these serve a useful purpose, however excessive extensions to the expiration of copyright as well as harmful patent trolls show the negative side of this arrangement.

Open source software and hardware has emerged as a powerful alternative that is compatible with profit making but also with building a Commons benefiting everybody inclusively.

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