Go Open - Episode 8

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Go Open' is a South African-created TV series that aired in late 2004, and is dedicated to open-source software. The creators of 'Go Open' have very kindly permitted the show to be shared freely with a Creative Commons license.

Lead Story: Google Google is a play on the word ‘googol’, which was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, "Mathematics and the Imagination" by Kasner and James Newman. The fanciful term refers to the number 10 raised to the hundredth power. Google's use of the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense, seemingly infinite amount of information available on the web.

Big Gun: Larry Lessig Larry Lessig is a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school’s Centre for Internet and Society. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, he was the Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Lessig was also a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and a Professor at the University of Chicago Law School. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court.

Doing it:Rhythmbox Rhythmbox is an integrated music management application, originally inspired by Apple’s iTunes. It’s available for Unix or Linux running the Gnome Desktop. Like iTunes, you can use it to browse, search and sort the music on your computer. It supports just about any music format, be it MP3, or Ogg Vorbis. Convert your CD’s to one of these formats, and set up your own playlists. You can even use it to tune into Internet radio stations.

Open Source Means Business: e-Commerce e-commerce, or electronic commerce, is defined as the conduct of financial transactions by electronic means. With the growth of commerce on the Internet and the Web, e-commerce often refers to purchases from on-line stores on the Web, otherwise knows as e-commerce websites. They may also be referred to as "virtual-stores" or “cyber stores”. Since the transaction goes through the Internet and the Web, some have suggested another term: i-commerce (Internet commerce). e-commerc ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6MgprtulNw