Open Source and Free Software as Access Regimes

• Seeks to promote free software market

• Services model, use value driven leverages off fact that software both non rival and durable

• “Free as in market”/“free as in speech” not “free as in beer”

• No lock in by the licence terms/vendor control of source

• Lack of monopoly/lock in allows price for software services/software to decrease to level of market

• GPL attaches to derivative works preserving access regime for later comers.