Open source maintainers are exhausted and rarely paid. A new generation wants to change the economics.
Penguin: EU Copyright Could Derail Open Source
Innovation, Software
GitHub: Changes to EU copyright law could derail open source distribution
A proposed European law would mandate that content providers utilize some kind of content filter to make sure rights holders get their royalties. But for a public open source code repository, such a contraption could be a nuisance, or it could be catastrophic.
Penguin: Amazon Central Versus Peer to Peer Decentral….
Data, Governance, InnovationEmin Gun Sirer: Good post [by David Rosenthal] on why peer to peer storage projects face an uphill battle, which will likely end downhill, in Amazon's lap.
Full text of post below the line as a safety copy.
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Mongoose: Cryptocurrency and Open Source Intelligence
Money
Cryptocurrency: A Gold Mine For Open-Source Intelligence
Expert Says Virtual Currency Systems Leak Useful Data To Track Criminals
Penguin: Amazon + Waze + Open Source + Muncipalities = Amazon Knows Where Everyone Is, Always
Data, GeospatialA New Open-Source Framework for Government Projects
More than 600 local, state and federal governments have signed up for the Waze Connected Citizens Program, and more than 80 have expressed interest in a new Waze open source processor—New York City; Los Angeles; Anchorage, Alaska; and Denver among them—to contribute code or deploy the finished solution. The only cost they’ll incur will be that of paying the cloud provider, Amazon, for storage and data transfer: less than $200 a month.
Berto Jongman: RAND on OSINT — Without Integrity
Access, Data, Innovation, Knowledge
Rethinking OSINT as an Intelligence Discipline
Defining Open Source and OSINT
OSINT Subtypes
…News Media Content
…Gray Literature.
…Long-Form Social Media Content
…Short-Form Social Media Content
OSINT Methodology: The OSINT Operations Cycle
…Collection
…Processing
…Exploitation
…Production
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Penguin: Harvard Business Review on Why Open Innovation Fails – Scientists are Selfish, Do Not Play Well With Others…
InnovationWhy Do Open Innovation Efforts Fail? Scientists Want to Solve Problems Themselves
It took us months to realize what was going on here: The most resistant scientists and engineers saw open source methods as a fundamental challenge to their professional identities. They defined themselves as “problem solvers,” but open innovation crowdsourcing platforms didn’t let them play that role; instead, they had to frame problems for someone else to solve.
