Property Rights in Software

Tom Kelliher, CS 200

Mar. 2, 2004

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Read Chapter 7 and bring in an article for discussion.

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Chapter Summary

1. The Free Software model.

2. The Open Source model.

3. The proprietary model.

Discussion Questions

1. Does everyone understand what a software license is?

2. Has anyone read one, end-to-end?

3. Should one of the models be legislated into use?

4. Should I be able to install a program on as many machines as I want, for just my use, regardless of what the license says?

5. Linux vs. SCO.