Dear Charles, I have just a quick comment, more or less supporting your view... Am 03.05.2019 um 09:26 schrieb Charles M. Ess:
(a) physical media such as CDs do / not remain relevant in especially student music consumption, and/or
In my environment (Germany, teenagers) at least DVDs are still a little bit relevant in three dimensions, as far as I can tell from some situations I experienced myself. First, as you told, buying CDs on concerts or even from street musicians happens. I guess this is for supporting musicians and to have a souvenir. Second, parents of younger children still have DVDs, they help with limiting the watching time and access control. Third, the streaming market is diverse and the /first /seasons of Game of Thrones apparently are not available on every service. Passing the DVDs around is easier. All in all, it is not the most common thing teenagers do, but they still know what a DVD is.
(b) FLOSS - including ongoing development and distribution of software (beyond the usual suspects of Mozilla products, wikipedia, etc.) is / no longer of any significance?
I think it is still of significance but the situation settled. Eventually, MIT and Apache 2.0 licenses are getting more and more common, aren't they? From what I understand about the debates they address FOSS as well as Open Source concerns. Most web projects I deal with (and even hardware projects, e. g. the "maker movement") use these licences. Best regards, Jakob -- Jakob Jünger University of Greifswald Institute of Political Science and Communication Studies Ernst-Lohmeyer-Platz 3 17487 Greifswald Germany Room: 3.16 (3. floor) Email: jakob.juenger@uni-greifswald.de Phone : +49 3834 420 3444 or +49 173 860 8056 Web: http://www.ipk.uni-greifswald.de/