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Episode: 1582
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Title: HPR1582: An Open Source News Break from Opensource.com
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr1582/hpr1582.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-18 05:16:59
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Good day Hacker Public Radio.
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This is Semiotic Robotic bringing you an open source news break from opensource.com.
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You may remember that in June Tesla Motors said it was releasing its patent portfolio, particularly
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those patents related to its charging station technology.
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At the time Tesla CEO Elon Musk claimed the company was doing so, quote, in the spirit
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of the open source movement.
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In our business channel, writer Travis Keppley takes a look at precisely what Musk might
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mean by this statement.
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He likens Tesla's move to Microsoft's attempts to contribute code to the Linux kernel.
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Both companies, Keppley writes, are trying to exert some influence over the core technologies
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that seem critical to their respective futures, even if their actions appear self-serving.
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It is more than likely that Microsoft contributed code to the Linux kernel primarily because
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it benefited them, Keppley says.
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But hasn't that been one of the fundamental arguments as to why open source is better?
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If it's not working for you, fix it.
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If you work out in the open, others can also improve it, which further benefits you.
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What's good for the goose is good for the gander, so to speak, he says.
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Ultimately, Keppley writes, Tesla's decision demonstrates the way open source thinking
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allows sharing to become a strategic and potentially lucrative business maneuver.
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In our life channel, we're featuring another thought-provoking piece by Jumla Community
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Manager David Hurley, who writes about what he thinks are the 12 most pressing challenges
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for any open source project.
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Among these, he says, are establishing a shared vision, reconciling contributors' personal
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ethics with the goals of the project, and implementing a fair but expedient peer-review
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process.
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Hurley also provides ways to overcome these obstacles.
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There will always be pain points, an open source, and no community is perfect, Hurley
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writes.
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However, the argument that open source communities are somehow less ideal than a closed-sourced
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corporation is simply untrue.
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And finally, in our health channel, opensourths.com Community Manager Jen White offers an update
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on GNU Health, a GPL licensed free software tool aimed at assisting healthcare facilities
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in rural areas and developing countries.
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The project began in 2006, White says, and has since evolved into a health and hospital
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system that the United Nations, public hospitals and ministries of health and countries like
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Argentina, and even private institutions all over the world continue to use today.
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You can examine the code and the project at health.new.org.
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That's the end of another open source news break from opensourths.com.
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You can read the stories I've discussed via the links in this episode's show notes.
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And you can always find more opensourths news at opensourths.com.
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Until next time, this is semioticrobotic, wishing you peace, love, and open source.
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For more information, visit www.hprlistner.com and visit www.hprlistner.com for more information.
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easy it really is.
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the website or record a follow-up episode yourself.
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Unless otherwise status, today's show is released on the Creative Commons' Attribution
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ShareLife 3.0 license.
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