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    <outline text="Intro" Offset="00:17">
      <outline text="Three year anniversary coming up"/>
      <outline text="Correction, speaker at Google I/O was not Cal Henderson, but Steve Souders"/>
      <outline text="http://thecommandline.net/2008/06/05/google_io/#comment-377"/>
    </outline>
    <outline text="Word of the Week: DEC" Offset="02:15">
      <outline text="http://catb.org/jargon/html/D/DEC.html"/>
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    <outline text="Monologue: Unintended Uses" Offset="04:04">
      <outline text="Asked by Kreg Steppe">
        <outline text="http://malirath.blogspot.com/2008/05/devil-and-guitar-hero.html"/>
        <outline text="Musician not happy with use of sing in Guitar Hero"/>
        <outline text="Begs the question more generally about unintended uses"/>
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      <outline text="Don't have to look far">
        <outline text="The reason behind my advice to always write your best code"/>
        <outline text="http://thecommandline.net/2006/11/12/the-command-line-73-listener-comment-line-360-252-7284/"/>
        <outline text="Inner Chapter on personal quality"/>
        <outline text="No such thing as throw away code"/>
        <outline text="If it is interesting enough to share, someone will think it is interesting enough to use"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Can take a subtler form">
        <outline text="Twitter written as a CMS, but ends up closer to a protocol"/>
        <outline text="http://dev.twitter.com/2008/05/twittering-about-architecture.html"/>
        <outline text="Naive assumptions"/>
        <outline text="http://blog.twitter.com/2008/05/its-not-rocket-science-but-its-our-work.html"/>
        <outline text="Have been there myself"/>
        <outline text="Worked on an online procurement system designed by academics"/>
        <outline text="In such a setting, only buy similar items together, like pens and pencils, not pens and staplers"/>
        <outline text="In practice, buyers want to lump all kinds of different things they think a single supplier can sell"/>
        <outline text="In both case, started with one set of assumptions"/>
        <outline text="Actual users put to uses designers, coders didn't intend"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="This is true of content, too">
        <outline text="How many popular YouTube videos were meant seriously"/>
        <outline text="Often work best as a joke, with irony"/>
        <outline text="Unintended appreciation seems to be common with most popular meme rich media"/>
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      <outline text="Innovation depends on unintended uses">
        <outline text="TCP/IP and simple protocols">
          <outline text="Solved a simple low level problem"/>
          <outline text="Allowed following developers to stack new users on top"/>
          <outline text="Some of the intentional"/>
          <outline text="Unintentional parts have more to do with authentication, authorization"/>
          <outline text="All the security problems we have because of IP and other spoofing"/>
          <outline text="Have to take the good with the bad, though"/>
          <outline text="Building in too much structure limits unexpected remixes"/>
          <outline text="Such a fixture, openness is expected"/>
          <outline text="Given a choice between a more open, less restrictive API or platform or otherwise"/>
          <outline text="Most developers will go with the more &quot;free&quot;, flexible technology"/>
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        <outline text="Intentional, remix licenses of the Creative Commons">
          <outline text="Many creators want to share"/>
          <outline text="Pleased to see the novel re-uses of their content"/>
          <outline text="Institutes the desire to see novel, &quot;unintended&quot; uses"/>
          <outline text="Free sharing, without condition, spawned licenses other than GPL"/>
          <outline text="Simple attribution licenses like BSD, MIT and Apache"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Share alike tries to force sharing of innovation">
          <outline text="Also tries to cut down on free riders"/>
          <outline text="Freedom zero and personal use, under CC, don't trigger share alike"/>
          <outline text="Really a condition between two or more creators"/>
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      <outline text="Piracy is also a form of unintended use">
        <outline text="As with innovation, risk of popularity"/>
        <outline text="http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2002/12/11/piracy.html"/>
        <outline text="Of course, isn't about the use"/>
        <outline text="True piracy is about the money"/>
        <outline text="End user who wants cheap or free"/>
        <outline text="Distributor who wants to profit on someone else's labor"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Morally questionable uses">
        <outline text="License choice really doesn't enter into it">
          <outline text="A criminal can use commercial office software to plan, commit crimes"/>
          <outline text="Software vendor is not culpable for that use"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Freedom zero of Free Software even institutionalizes you can use software how you want">
          <outline text="Similar freedoms yield counter intuitions"/>
          <outline text="Freedom of ownership of the OLPC XO means several have observed child could install Windows if they want"/>
          <outline text="Freedom inherent in CC means Zune's ad hoc DRM is allowed and actively preventing actually reduces freedom"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="If you make your software available, regardless of license, run the risk of uses to which you object"/>
        <outline text="Web applications can be an exception">
          <outline text="Terms of service can forbid certain uses"/>
          <outline text="This is often more of a necessity"/>
          <outline text="Such service retain your data as part of what the do"/>
          <outline text="Simply trying to protect themselves"/>
          <outline text="Even so, try not to interfere too much"/>
          <outline text="Common carriage is based on not actively discriminating against uses"/>
          <outline text="Such a status often affords protections of its own, depending on the law"/>
          <outline text="As long as a service provider responds to a complaint, they are not liable"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Attribution requirements give a legal basis for dealing with confusion of identity">
          <outline text="Read attribution licenses more closely"/>
          <outline text="Many basically disclaim the uses to which software is put"/>
          <outline text="If a user represents the software author as aligning with their use"/>
          <outline text="Author can have recourse to stop at least that confusing identification"/>
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      <outline text="If you are overly afraid of how people may use your software and content">
        <outline text="You are not obligated to share"/>
        <outline text="You may simply keep it to yourself"/>
        <outline text="The risk of a problematic use, I think, is worth the surprisingly good uses you may discover, though"/>
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    <outline text="Outro" Offset="23:07">
      <outline text="Contact me">
        <outline text="Email to feedback@thecommandline.net"/>
        <outline text="Web site at http://thecommandline.net/"/>
        <outline text="IM to command.line@skype"/>
        <outline text="Listener comment line is 240-949-2638"/>
        <outline text="del.icio.us tag is &quot;for:cmdln&quot;"/>
        <outline text="http://twitter.com/cmdln"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="I'd like to thank libsyn.com for AAC hosting and Wouter de Bie for MP3 hosting"/>
      <outline text="These notes and the show audio and music are covered by a Creative Commons license">
        <outline text="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/"/>
        <outline text="Attribution, non-commercial, share alike"/>
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