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#RSECon25 is starting today! For me will be full (if not exclusively) of #OpenSource sessions. Let's enjoy the show.
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We start #RSECon25 with a Keynote of @AmandaBrock ( @openuk ).
She has published Open Source Law, Policy and Practice (available free at https://academic.oup.com/book/44727 ) and it's also translated to 官话.
#SOOCON26 will be happening on 3-4 Feb 2026 https://stateofopencon.com/
Following the #OpenSourceDefinition as by @osi , says on points 5. and 6. that no discrimination between users or uses (including commercial)
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Open Source Law, Policy and Practice

Abstract. This book examines various policies, including the legal and commercial aspects of the Open Source phenomenon. Here, ‘Open Source’ is adopted as conve

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Why do Govs want OS? Historically for being able to reuse what's been created by public money and to avoid #lockIn, however, many are through a service layer (eg. Cloud)

@openuk has created a visualisation to help with the language of opennes.

Three generations of #openSource, e.g Linux, Kubernetes, AI. We need generation 2 and 3 to understand what Open Source means.

UK has mor pero capita GH accounts (6.1% in 2024).
Picture shows heat map of GH accounts, pockets at unis
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What happens in academia?
We have to make better than industry, and benefit from the #openSource power.
Shout out to @swheritage

#OpenSource needs funding. As a public good, to collaborate together.

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#questions
- opinion #GPL? It allows not to distribute it.
- does release research code as open make it difficult from industrial partners to support it? If you want to patent or commercialise it as such dond do it. But there are ways to monitarise check ch 16 of book listed above
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