Under The Desk at MIT

Presented at HOPE Number Six (2006), July 22, 2006, 11 a.m. (60 minutes)

A formal announcement of the creation of the Public Domain Software Foundation (PDSF). The PDSF is meant to be a parallel to the Free Software Foundation. It is being started to advocate and support the placement of source code and documentation in the public domain rather than under the GNU licenses. This presentation will include an explanation of how cryptographic management of identity makes many licenses unnecessary. Package and patch management solutions are becoming much more automated with Linux distributions as well as with various software packages. An explanation of why this trend is making the public domain a necessity for many types of modern software.

Presenters:

• V. Alex Brennen
  V. Alex Brennen (VAB) is a programmer and systems administrator at MIT. He has been involved in the free software community for more than ten years. He has been producing software, patches, and documentation for most of that time. Before joining the MIT community, Alex worked for an IBM systems integrator, The Pediatric Oncology Group, and The University of Florida. His specialization is in medical information systems, peer to peer networking, and cryptographic solutions.

Links:

• https://infocon.org/cons/2600/HOPE Number Six (2006)/HOPE Number Six (2006) - Under The Desk at MIT.srt (subtitles)
• https://infocon.org/cons/2600/HOPE Number Six (2006)/HOPE Number Six (2006) - Under The Desk at MIT.mp4
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgSnnKkmhrE

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