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I went to listen to Richard Stallman at U.C. Berkeley on "Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks". At the end I asked Richard about my publishing software under LGPL with one part free (PHP and javascript code) and another part copyrighted (flash code.) He told me I was unethical. From his talk and writing, I gather the ethics are that I'm not allowing someone else the ability to see and modify the code I've written in the Flash portion.

I respect Richard's personal ethic to share all code that he's written. I disagree with him imposing his personal ethics and methods on others.

Not everyone else has the same needs and requirements with software and other products as Richard. Many do not want to and will not modify computer code. More essential, an exchange of work performed is a contract between two or more individuals. It's a negotiation where both parties find the best agreement for a product. In the future some or all of the Flash source code may be available. And it is likely available on a negotiated basis. But to require only one method of disseminating coded takes away the freedom to distributing and negotiating work. That is unethical.

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Eddie Codel, Jay Dedman, Ryanne Hodson and I talk about the Digg v3 Video cateogry.

Here's some spoon fulls of what was cooking in the TechCrunch Kitchen on November 18, 2005.  The audio wasn't optimal since it's a small, somewhat enclosed space with other people's voices bouncing and creating interfering.  So I subtitled (abbreviating some of the sentences) in parts.

1. 0:04: Robert Scoble on a blogging web service that automaticaly highlights, searchs and find tags in other services related to the text as it's typed in.
   
2. 1:35:  Munjal Shah, CEO & Co-Founder of Riya, on the value of blogs to company PR.
3. 2:15:  Munjal on the release of Riya alpha 2.
4. 2:38:  Munjal on the next step in Riya, the discovery search.  Everybody's photo metadata is searchable, but access to private photos is through a negotiated access control.
5. 3:20:  Steve Gilmor asks Munjal whether if it will be institutionalized that the metadata is open.