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Open source developers ask<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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For the answer, look to other professions.<\/strong><\/p>

Architects, for example.<\/strong><\/p>

Think about it: how are architects assured of getting paid for their work? (After all, their drawings are like open source. Anyone could just go ahead and build from them.)<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The answer is that the city won\u2019t let a building be occupied until the architect agrees to it by signing for the issuance of the occupancy permit. So the architect must be paid before their work can be put to use.<\/p>

That\u2019s why successful architects have seven figure incomes.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Everyone benefits:<\/strong> the community knows that its buildings can be trusted to meet standards, and the architects get paid generously.<\/p>

Wouldn\u2019t it be nice if software development worked that way?<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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But of course there\u2019s a catch. The architect must accept professional liability for their work. If it turns out that the building isn\u2019t secure, the architect could lose their license to practice, and the generous income that comes with it.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Professional licensing is a core part of the new software assumptions.<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Learn about the new software assumptions landscape:<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t

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… and about other professional licenses for digital professionals.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Architects, Doctors, Lawyers<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Architects, Doctors, Lawyers, and other professions require licensing by public authority.<\/p>

An architect\u2019s professional license means accepting liability for their work.<\/p>

And they wouldn\u2019t have it any other way \u2013 because accepting liability means getting paid well.<\/p>

Now, with the City of Osmio\u2019s professional licensing, you\u2019ll participate in the solution to all of the problems facing the world\u2019s information infrastructure.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Three sets of assumptions
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Which set of assumptions fits your assumptions most closely?<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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I\u2019m content with what Silibandia gives me.<\/p>

(Silibandia<\/strong> = Silicon Valley plus the broadband and media industries plus their feeders in the data brokerage, dark web, botnet, private equity, venture capital and cybersecurity industries.)<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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I\u2019m not content with what Silibandia gives me, and so I help build open source alternatives.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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I\u2019m not content with what Silibandia gives me, but the open source community often overlooks the need for accountability. I want real privacy for myself, and I want real accountability from others. I want Authenticity enabled open source.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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If your choice is #1, thanks for your time, let\u2019s not waste any more of it.<\/p>

If you answered 2 or 3, let\u2019s talk.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>

Here\u2019s the new software assumptions landscape:<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Until now, the world of software licensing has been divided into proprietary and open source models. That has served us well\u2026 or has served us anyway, for decades. But we\u2019re going to show you that the world needs something better \u2013 a third way if you will. Allow us to introduce that third model to you. <\/p>

But first, to quote a big software-driven company, this is not your usual yada yada. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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This is genuinely new.<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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It\u2019s about governance.<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The proprietary ecosystems ...<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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…of Apple, Adobe, Microsoft, Oracle and others are governed. In each case, an identifiable entity, a company, takes responsibility for keeping the system useful and secure. That\u2019s good.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Open source software ...<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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…also provides its own kind of goodness. Anyone can put open source software to use, avoiding market manipulation, proprietary barriers, license fees, file format gotchas, hidden privacy erosion techniques, and the rest of the not so good stuff that infests proprietary technology.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Proprietary software might have been OK when your phone was wired into the wall and your \u201cmicro\u201d computer was an unconnected glorified typewriter. But now that we live a large portion of our lives in the digital world, that private, closed governance has us all living down on the plantations<\/abbr> <\/strong><\/span>of the owners of those proprietary platforms.<\/p>

So how do we get the benefits of both governed systems and open source systems at the same time?<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The answer is: <\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Governed Open Source<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Before we illustrate by taking closer look at that word governance, we need to deal with that old bugaboo, centralization. Specifically we\u2019ll quote the noted advocate of decentralization, Lawrence Lundy-Bryan<\/strong>, who proclaims<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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\u201cThere is no such thing as decentralized governance.\u201d<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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If you think about it, isn\u2019t that self-evident? The things we use in our daily lives, including software, may work OK as disconnected widgets, but if governance is a do-your-own-thing matter, well, that\u2019s simply not governance.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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In the physical world, municipalities are effectively governed by activists \u2013 residents who get involved by showing up for hearings and paying attention to what goes on in city hall. The governance of cities is much more participatory than the governance of nations, with their many layers of representation and bureaucracy obfuscating the realities of government from the governed. It\u2019s nations, not cities, that give centralized government its bad rap.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Now let\u2019s see how that notion applies to the governance of our digital world rather than our physical world.<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Governance of proprietary digital ecosystems is by people who are by law accountable only to the stockholders who own the company. And, amazingly, in the United States and many other countries, their performance is judged only by the performance of their stock in the stock market. If they manage to make money by burglarizing your \u201cinformation home,\u201d stealing your personal information and putting it on their balance sheet as a money making asset, then by the standards of Wall Street, that\u2019s good.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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By the standards of you and me, isn\u2019t that an atrocity?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Sources of proprietary technology are governed by a management team and a board of directors. You\u2019re not invited to participate in that governance unless you own a substantial portion of the company\u2019s voting stock.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Learn about how governed open source technology keeps open source open<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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We started by noting the benefit that proprietary ecosystems bring to the users of their software, in that an identifiable entity takes responsibility for keeping the system useful and secure.<\/p>

Learn about how governed open source technology keeps open source open, while at the same time bringing that accountability element to the open source world.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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