Presentation  
Time/Room Saturday   1:30   Haskell-219 Capacity 30 Duration 1.50 hr
Title Freedom and the Cloud: Developer Platforms meet Software as a Service Category Programming
Speaker Ted Haeger Sponsor Bungee Labs
Details A new wave of software development is taking shape, allowing developers to create and deploy software entirely through the browser. In this talk, Ted Haeger explains platform-as-a-service and some of the issues it raises regarding software freedom. What is the GPL's "SaaS loophole"? How do web service providers promote or discourage the ethics of Free Software? Why
does the Affero GPL matter? How does free software enable invigorate startup innovation, and what are the ethical obligations to reciprocate of the companies that use free software to build their business?

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