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Michael Tiemann spoke as the keynote lecture during the 2007 Kilgour Symposium. He covered topics on open source sustainability and development principles and looked at how these forces work in industrial, educational, economic, and scholarship environments. Pointing to initiatives like Creative Commons, Open courseware systems, and what an ‘ownership society’ means in contrast to an ‘intellectual property controlled society.’ Some interesting citations – “The generous man“, Game theory & open source development sustainability, Open source enables ‘long tail’ development.