Founder and Chair of the Mozilla Foundation discusses open source software

692_ Founder and Chair of the Mozilla Foundation discusses open source software 
Lucy Sanders, the CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology or NCWIT along with Lee Kennedy and Larry Nelson, spoke with Mitchell Baker, founder and Chair of the Mozilla Foundation. She just received the "Women of Vision Award" from the Anita Borg Institute. This is the next in the Entrepreneurial Toolbox Series - a series focused on different subjects entrepreneurs need to know about. We've talked about networking, failures, business competitions, how to get an NSF SBIR grant, and today they are discussing open source. Mitchell went onto define the parameters, "Open Source is software which is available for use under license, meaning under terms which meet certain criteria. So the software has to be available in a way that says it's free of charge; you're free to access and have the source code version of the software (that's the version that human beings can understand) - you can get the source code version free of charge, you can use that version however you want. I can take a piece of open source software, I can change it, I can modify it, I can brand it differently, I can make a new product out of it and I can use that product either myself or as the basis of a commercial business. So the ability for you to get access to the source code, to change it and the ability to do what you want with it is the core criteria for being open source." There's more...
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