The president of the FFII points out that Neelie Kroes says about open source: "What if we are sued if we infringe someone else IP if we use this?"
Given Kroes' past when it comes to patents, it's no shocking U-turn and the video above is good news by most judgments. There are also good things happening in the UK government at the moment. More on that soon. ⬆
If Cloudflare wants to use its vast surveillance network (which is what it does as a CDN) to foist paywalls and maybe something worse (like DRM on top), then Cloudflare should be more widely rejected as a company
Imagine trying to sell someone a house (proper home) while insisting that it'll need to be demolished 5 or 10 years later, then rebuilt again from scratch on the same vacant lot
