Today, I was reading through emails on an open source developers’ list where there has been a contentious debate about different open source licensing agreements and the effect these agreements have on projects that interoperate with them. The discussion resides at the intersection of the geeky and the legal and can get very arcane.

So, I was very interested to read this comment in the midst of a heated discussion:

Ok. I took a deep breath. I watched the Obama speech, and that inspired me to be brutally honest with myself, and note an objection to my own impassioned argument.