I think AGPL3 is really important for web applications and I’m really happy that OSI made AGPL official. Now I hope that more FLOSS projects will use it.
PS: This post is a sort of answer to post about Magento’s license where Roy Rubin (CEO of Varien) told me that AGPL wasn’t OSI approved (it was true in that moment, but now it isn’t anymore). Hey I don’t want to reopen the licenses war of that post, this note is just to join the arguments :-)
This post is OT in my blog but I think this news on TechCrunch needs attention, because technology should always be created keeping “life” in mind, any form of life.
While the orbo machine demonstration has been postponed again (and I’m going to postpone also my comments about the machine), I’d like to point out some other interesting projects:
I don’t like captcha systems too much, they take you too much time to type unreadable alphanumeric strings, today I found a new project by Carnegie Mellon University: reCAPTCHA and it looks like this:
I like the interface, it could be nice to have only one captcha system for all websites, so visitors wouldn’t have to understand different UI from a website to another.
reCAPTCHA is a webservice and it’s free thus it’s easy to integrate, just a note:
The only reason we would charge is if you are a large corporation that uses a lot of our bandwidth, or if you require special services from us.
How much “a lot” is? I would prefer a clearer contract. Actually I would prefer an open development model.
I feel this as a big problem in Italy because of my involvment in some free projects, I don’t know if it’s the same in other countries but I can imagine that’s pretty the same situation.
A free project is created starting from an idea of a single person, some other joins, some other say “hey I want to do this instead of this” and create another project. What’s the result? The failure of at least one of the projects.
It’s absolutely sad to see good projects dying because people can’t find common objectives and work together!
If you come second, don’t impose your ideas, join the community and work for it, if you really want to contribute put down your own pride and work for the free software, not only for yourself and your name!
