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27	27	2.// **The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance**// - There are some //serious //problems facing the Open Source community, and there always are, every year. Who is pushing back for you?// Maybe not who you think. //We are faced with powerful companies and their industry associations that profess to represent Open Source while they work against our interest, like loggers who claim to speak for the trees. They are trying right now to establish royalty-bearing patents in "Open" standards that would prevent the implementation of Open Source that complied with the standard, or its commercial use. They are fighting to make our licenses unenforceable - one country's copyright commission even sponsored a presentation on making Open Source licenses "guidelines" rather than legal requirements**. **Well-known companies flaunt decade-long infringements of licenses that //don't even ask for much,// potentially establishing a precedent for courts to further dishonor our licenses.** **One company and their lawyer sued me for defamation for even //daring //to blog that they //might //be violating an Open Source license. I ran up a fortune in legal defense fees, but I'm sticking with the case, to protect the Free Speech Rights of Open Source developers. Against all of these forces, we have our small, poorly funded organizations like OSI that truly have the community's goals at heart, and people like me who try to fund their activities out of their own pockets. We need all of the help we can get.
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29		-== Want to Talk? ==
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31	31	Your OSI board members should be available. The best way to reach me is via email to bruce at perens dot com. You can also leave a message at 510-4PERENS and I'll call back. I live in Berkeley, California, a mile or so from Campus. My weblog is [[Perens.com>>url:https://perens.com/]] . I'm [[@BrucePerens>>url:https://twitter.com/BrucePerens]] on Twitter. I have presences on other social networks, but use them much less frequently. Please use email rather than social networks to contact me. I check email most frequently.
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