Friday, June 13, 2008

Red Hat Settlement and the Open Source Ecosystem

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The recent settlement by Red Hat of its patent litigation with Firestar Software, Inc. demonstrates the differences how the cooperative natu...
Sunday, June 8, 2008

ALI Legal Recommendations Could Create New Liability for Open Source Licensors

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The American Law Institute ("ALI") has recently published the first draft of the ALI Principles of the Law of Software Contracts (...
Tuesday, May 27, 2008

2008 Open Source Think Tank: The Future of Open Source

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Olliance Group, the leading consulting firm for open source companies, has published the Summary Report from the 2008 Open Source Think Tank...
Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Venture Capital Funding for Open Source Shows Significant Increase in First Quarter

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The Venture Capital Journal noted in its April issue that investments in open source software increased dramatically in the first quarter of...
Wednesday, April 23, 2008

OSBC: Aligning Intellectual Property Strategy and Open Source Strategy

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Recently, at the OSBC, I spoke on how to align your intellectual property strategy to your open source business strategy. This issue can be ...
Sunday, April 20, 2008

HBS Open Source Case: Salvation or Suicide

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Harvard Business School recently published a case on whether a software game company, KMS, which makes a device which permits amateurs to s...
Friday, April 4, 2008

Open Source as the Borg: Resistance is Futile

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The recent report by Gartner, the State of Open Source 2008 ( http://www.gartner.com/ ; report G00156659), as summarized on their site provi...