Who Owns Your Software? Why Open Source, And Open Standards, Matter

L Peter Deutsch - Aladdin Enterprises

Stevenson Hall 1300
12:00 PM - 12:50 PM

We take for granted that we can loan (or give or sell) a book to a friend, play a CD on any device we want, repair a car (or pay someone to repair it), reinforce a ladder, or break the lock on a box whose key we've lost. But for software, we usually sign away all of these rights, or accept technical measures that nullify them. What are the costs and benefits of this situation, and its available alternatives, for you as a software user and/or creator?