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Stephen Downes

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Nice summary of this conference which gives the reader a good glimpse into the thinking and sense of the software industry. One senses some movement on things like licensing, copyright and patents. And excerpt: "Information vendors need to come up with better ways to price products. There may be X million people who use the FLICC (Federal Library and Information Center Committee) intranet. But there may be only a few people who need to use a particular product from a particular vendor. Any pricing that tries to license the millions instead of the actual users is not going to fly." If the PilotEd site is new to you, you may want to see Their other items from previous months.

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