Comments on: Constitutionally open services

By: Mike Linksvayer » Us Autonomo!

Mike Linksvayer » Us Autonomo! — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 05:05:46 +0000

[...] written about the subject of this group and statement a number of times on this blog, starting with Constitutionally Open Services two years ago. I think that post holds up pretty well. Here were my tentative [...]

By: Mike Linksvayer » gOS: the web takes and gives

Mike Linksvayer » gOS: the web takes and gives — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 00:10:05 +0000

[...] irony (long recognized by many) is that while web applications pose a threat to user freedoms gained through desktop free and open source software, they’ve also greatly [...]

By: The Chandler Project Blog » Blog Archive » Chandler Hub as an open service

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:01:31 +0000

[...] for the GNOME Online Desktop project. Luis takes care to catalog excellent references to earlier work as well. There’s a healthy conversation on the Open Knowledge Foundation’s okfn-discuss [...]

By: Mike Linksvayer » The pragmatic case for open services

Mike Linksvayer » The pragmatic case for open services — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 00:00:24 +0000

[...] been meaning to comment again (see constitutionally open services from last July) on free services as in free software, discussion of which has picked up noticably [...]

By: Mike Linksvayer » Rear Guard Applications

Mike Linksvayer » Rear Guard Applications — Sat, 12 May 2007 23:40:46 +0000

[...] less than worked up because I see proprietary RIA as a rearguard action (NB web applications are complicated for open source completely independent of their use of “rich” frameworks), albeit one [...]

By: Mike Linksvayer » Community is the new IP

Mike Linksvayer » Community is the new IP — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 05:22:15 +0000

[...] And of course community participants may want to consider what allowances they require from a community owner, e.g., open licenses, data, and formats so that at a minimum a participant can retrieve and republish elsewhere her contributions if the owner does a bad job. [...]

By: Mike Linksvayer » Wordcamp and wiki mania

Mike Linksvayer » Wordcamp and wiki mania — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 07:34:27 +0000

[...] Beyond the purely practical, ease of customization and upgrade is important for openness. [...]

By: Mike Linksvayer » Open Data

Mike Linksvayer » Open Data — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 20:13:12 +0000

[...] I don’t know if this goes far enough for “open services” — certainly not far enough for the service equivalent of free software. However, it might be nice if “open” meant something substantially different than “free” or “libre” for services, c.f. open source software and free software. [...]

By: Mike Linksvayer » Free software needs P2P

Mike Linksvayer » Free software needs P2P — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 02:49:54 +0000

[...] Luis Villa on my constitutionally open services post: It needs a catchier name, but his thinking is dead on- we almost definitely need a server/service-oriented list of freedoms which complement and extend the traditional FSF Four Freedoms and help us think more clearly about what services are and aren’t good to use. [...]

By: Luis Villa’s Blog » followups on my guadec posts

Luis Villa’s Blog » followups on my guadec posts — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 22:18:32 +0000

[...] Mike Linksvayer responded to one of my posts with a post about ‘Constitutionally Open Services‘. It needs a catchier name, but his thinking is dead on- we almost definitely need a server/service-oriented list of freedoms which complement and extend the traditional FSF Four Freedoms and help us think more clearly about what services are and aren’t good to use. (See also, tangentially, flickr’s potential decision to grant zoomr API access in a GPL-like share-and-share-alike way.) [...]