DebianDay/Talk5
From DebConf7
Free as in Market: the misunderstood entanglement of ethics, software and profits
Nick Mailer - Director, The Positive Internet Company
In the late nineties, a new term was coined to describe Free Software. Open Source emphasised pragmatism and methodologies, as opposed to ethics and principles. It was designed to strip Free Software of its "moralistic" garb, and redress it in a business suit.
It might come as a surprise, thefore, that Free Software holds the key to market success; proprietary software and Open Source's fair-weather friends reveal themselves increasingly hostile to the true interests of business.
Find out why Free software lead to Free markets.
About the speaker
Nick Mailer is one the founders and directors of The Positive Internet Company. Positive hosts thousands of websites and applications, including key services for some of the world's biggest banks, SKY, Granada, the BBC and even Richard Stallman. The company entered the Guinness Book of World Records in 2006 as the hosts of the Ricky Gervais Show--the most downloaded podcast ever.
