[okfn-discuss] Open Service Definition (revisited)

Wed Aug 1 14:26:38 UTC 2007

On 8/1/07, Francis Irving <francis at flourish.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 09:59:00AM -0400, Luis Villa wrote:
> > Sadly, open everywhere is fairly meaningless; the term is badly
> > overloaded. My own current private draft uses 'User-Centric Service
> > Definition' to avoid the ambiguity around 'open', but I'm not happy
> > with that route either. Suggestions welcome :)
>
> Maybe "Libre Service Definition", despite its problems in English. Or
> perhaps "Freedom Service Definition".

User Freedom Service Definition?

[Tangentially, from reading everything I can find about Prof. Moglen's
comments at OSCON, I think some of the problems we're all having in
coming to grips with this may be that 'user' used to be nearly
synonymous with (or at least deeply aligned with) 'deployer', whereas
now there is a vast gap between the identities and interests of
user-deployers and user-consumers. At OSCON, when Prof. Moglen spoke
of user freedom, he seemed focused mostly on user-deployers rather
than user-consumers, and if so, that explains a lot of the gap between
he and the SaaS crowd.]

Luis