A Pillar of Society

06/07/22 • 2 min

EPISODE 10: A PILLAR OF SOCIETY 🏛️
The Internet runs on it. The world relies on it. Even online voting depends on it. Our hero’s name is unknown to most people.
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This episode is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Created by: Mathias Bolt Lesniak
Creative advisor: Jeffrey A. “jam” McGuire

This episode is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Created by: Mathias Bolt Lesniak
Creative advisor: Jeffrey A. “jam” McGuire

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Even software funded with public tax money is mostly kept under restrictive, closed-source licenses. That can have unfortunate consequences.
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Open Source Utopia - A Pillar of Society

Transcript

00:00:00.467

Welcome to episode ten ... ... of the Open Source Utopia Podcast.

00:00:07.206

Much of our world relies ... ... on open source software, to the point that I consider it ... ... a pillar of society. Without it, the modern world would not exist.

00:00:20.719

“What is a pillar of society?” you might ask. In medieval Europe societies were divided ... ... into so-called “estates” under the monarchy. In France, there were three.