Brian discusses the potential impact of the SCO lawsuit on the open-source movement. (Developers are more amused than scared, he says.) Is the validity of the GPL at risk? Does that even matter? And what does the future hold for SCO?

Along the way, we delve into the fundamental concepts behind open source. It's not an economic system, according to Brian, but rather a method or process. It's the third chapter in the open-systems story, the first two chapters having been open hardware/software architectures and open standards.

If you have any interest in open-source software, you won't want to miss this conversation with an open-source pioneer, considered by many to be the grandfather of Apache.