'intellectual property' Tag

• Closed-source papers on open source communities: a problem and a partial solution

  June 12, 2011

  In the Wikipedia research community — that is, the group of academics and Wikipedians who are interested in studying Wikipedia — there has been a pretty substantial and longstanding problem with how research is published. Academics, from graduate students to tenured faculty, are deeply invested and entrenched in an system that rewards the publication of [...]

  posted in Blog Posts, Wikis by R. Stuart Geiger

• Why aren’t the GPL and the GFDL freely licensed?

  May 23, 2008

  Works licensed under the GPL and the GFDL can be modified and then freely redistributed, as long as the modified versions are released under the same conditions. Why are we not allowed to modify these licenses and redistribute them?

  posted in Blog Posts by R. Stuart Geiger

• Open Source Software: The Newest Specter?

  November 23, 2005

  Corporate adoption of open source software should not be viewed as antithetical to capitalism; rather, it is an example of corporations co-opting Communism to become more capitalist.

  posted in Academic Works, Unpublished by R. Stuart Geiger