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Nathan Yergler
Chief Technology Officer, Creative Commons

Nathan Yergler joined Creative Commons as a software engineer in July 2004. Yergler joined Creative Commons after pioneering the use of Python in the high school programming curriculum at Canterbury School, Fort Wayne, IN. Yergler resides in San Francisco and holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Purdue University (Fort Wayne).

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10:45am–11:30am Wednesday, 07/22/2009

With Software as a Service, Is Only the Network Luddite Free?

Emerging Topics
Location: Ballroom A4/A5

Bradley Kuhn (Software Freedom Conservancy), Benjamin Mako Hill (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Evan Prodromou (Fuzzy.io), Nathan Yergler (Creative Commons), Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.)

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At OSCON 2008, Tim O'Reilly raised in his keynote a new challenge we face: Software as a Service. This panel discusses the work spawned by autonomo.us to inspire the Open Source and Software Freedom Movement to address the challenge. The talk will discuss the AGPL, a license designed to address these concerns, and the federated service model that must exist to succeed in addressing this problem. Read more.

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