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Agenda

Is Open Source the Future of Software? 
April 12, 2002
10:00 a.m.--Noon
Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI
1150 Seventeenth St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036

Can "open source" software––software usually available without charge that individual users are free to modify––thrive in a Darwinian world of capitalist markets? Should government encourage open-source initiatives through subsidies, or direct its evolution by modifying intellectual property protection laws? Our panelists offer diverse views on a phenomenon that has become a touchstone for controversy in the information technology business.


9:45 Registration
10:00 Welcome:

Panelists:
Robert W. Hahn, Joint Center

James Bessen, Research on Innovation
David Evans, National Economic Research Associates (NERA)
Lawrence Lessig, Stanford University
Craig Mundie, Microsoft Corporation
Noon Adjournment