Last week was a political one. I spent a few days at the CCIA Open Source and Industry Alliance Caucus in Washington (more on that later), and a reception for the Open Resource Group (no URL yet).
At one point, I found myself vigorously defending a position that I wouldn’t have thought I held. [...]

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After work, the question got asked. It came up in the context of another discussion about the relevance of Free/Open Source Software. Availability of the source code is probably only relevant to computer programmers. After all, if you aren’t a programmer, what would you do with source code? In which case, [...]