Financial Times: Give Me Liberty And Give Me Death?

"The price of liberty is death, at least so far as free software is concerned. Or so goes the argument in Richard Epstein's column, 'Why open source is unsustainable.' It is a characteristically provocative title, but I am unconvinced.

"The article gives two main reasons for open source's doom. The first is an attack on the vagueness and, somewhat paradoxically, the imperialism Professor Epstein sees in the General Public Licence, the licence common to most 'free software' and much 'open source software...'"

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