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Simon Phipps: Your browser doesn’t seem to support HTML 5 (or perhaps the Ogg Theora standards) so you’re missing the embedded video here.

Excellent presentation (and excellent means of delivery via the web) by Simon.  His thesis is that a license is a necessary but not sufficient indicator of openness in a community.  (Related: Mark Wielaard points out a contemporary example [via Dims]). In my opinion, whether Simon’s got all of the details right isn’t the point, the point is to start a conversation on this important topic.

Incidentally, I was cameraman for this particular video, a task which entailed my pushing a single button and then holding a flip video recorder for approximately a half hour.