2009 Version in the news

Posted October 19, 2009

Published few weeks ago, 2009 update of 2020 Floss Roadmap has been commented by journalists and bloggers (see In the News).

About 2009 recommendation, it sounds interesting to highlight here two similar feedbacks which bring some valuable food for thoughts and which might influence our future work.

The first one is signed by Matthew Aslett in FOSS: War is over (if you want it):

“… And its in that context that we have seen the recommendation added to the 2020 FLOSS Roadmap, that FOSS should be recognised as a public knowledge asset. I think that this, as well as the other issues mentioned above, will represent some of the emerging battlegrounds for FOSS in the next decade as the movement moves from a position of acceptance to a position where collaboration and sharing is recognised as a key driver in the promotion of the European software industry, and in enabling the digital recovery.”

The second one is from Glyn Moody in Back to the Future: 2020 Roadmap Updated:

“… for me the most important aspect is the following tiny new recommendation:

Acknowledge the intrinsic value of FLOSS infrastructure for essential applications as a public knowledge asset (or ‘as knowledge commons’), and consider new means to ensure its sustainable development

I think the sooner it becomes generally recognised that free software is a digital knowledge commons – one of many that are being created through open collaboration – the more people’s attitudes to it will change, and the more impact it will have.

It is no coincidence that one of the people awarded this year’s Nobel Prize for Economics, was Elinor Ostrom, “for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons”. I look forward to reading next year’s 2020 roadmap, in the hope that it might explore more deeply this important concept. ”

Thanks a lot to both of them for their insight which help us greatly to validate our prospective.

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