Cody Taylor

jammag writes “Bruce Perens, who wrote the original licensing rules for Open Source software in 1997, notes that there are a sprawling 73 open source licenses currently in existence. But he identifies an essential four — well, actually just two — that developers, companies, and individuals need. In essence, he cuts through the morass and shows developers, in particular, how to protect their work. (And yes, he favors GPL3 over GPL2). For his own coding work, he’s fond of the ‘sharing with rules’ license, which stays true to the Open Source ethos of shared code yet also enables him to get paid by companies who use it in their commercial products.”

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An anonymous reader writes “NY is considering taxing ‘video and music’ downloads to offset a burdgeoning budget deficit.” How long before we all have meters on our routers? This version is just a 4% tax on movies and songs downloaded from services like iTunes, but I’m sure if they could figure out a bit tax, they would.

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