Politics of software

Software licensing

• Propietary licenses
• Open source licenses
• Free licenses
• Public domain

Software on your machine

• Stored locally
• Served and run locally
• vs. run remotely

Information/Data

• Stored locally
• In your servers
• "in the cloud"

Formats

• Open formats
  • royalty free
  • encumbered
• Propietary formats

Reproducible research

• Open source
• Open data