Papers from "Open Source Software: Economics, Law and Policy"
[Posted June 26, 2002 by dennis]
Two interesting papers considering the relationship between security and open source
were presented at the recent conference on
Open Source Software: Economics, Law and Policy
in
Toulouse (France).
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Ross Anderson: "Security in Open versus Closed Systems - The Dance of Boltzmann, Coase and Moore" (PDF format)
However, there are more pressing security problems for the open source
community. The interaction between security and openness is entangled
with attempts to use security mechanisms for commercial advantage -
to entrench monopolies, to control copyright, and above all to control
interoperability. As an example, I will discuss TCPA, a recent initiative
by Intel and others to build DRM technology into the PC platform.
This paper was also the subject of articles in the
New York Times and
News.com.
For more information and links to related articles, see
Ross Anderson's home page.
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Roger Needham: "Security and Open Source" (PDF format)
Security problems in software are of course an extremely bad thing, regardless
of the business model under which the software was written. I want to consider
why anybody thinks that the business model matters, and whether there is
evidence that it does. I shall also look somewhat to the future.
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