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Open Source
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DennisKennedy.Blog
Starting a Conversation about Open Source in Law Practice
At ABA TECHSHOW 2011, I got the opportunity to speak with Rodney Dowell on the topic of the "Open Source Powered Law Firm." Rodney was great, the audience was engaged,…
Contemporary Intellectual Property, Licensing & Information Law
Infringement and disclosure risk in development on copyleft platforms
While many companies that write apps or develop parallel platforms grounded in open source willingly disclose code and comply with copyleft rules (e.g., some transferees to also disclose their code),…
DuetsBlog
40 From 2010: Memory Lane on DuetsBlog
By Steve Baird®
As we approach the end of the year, we thought it might be a good opportunity to take a brief trip down memory lane, to identify, remind you of, and/or introduce you to what appear…
DuetsBlog
Open Source Software in the Cloud
Here is a fun fact; Facebook is or was based on cloud computing. Cloud computing consists of three types of computing services: (1) software as a service; (2) platform as…
New Media and Technology Law Blog
What Can We Learn from the SCO Litigations?
Last week, the district court in SCO, Inc. v. Novell (D. Utah), the current act in the long-running drama of the SCO litigations aimed at the Linux operating system, refused…
Contemporary Intellectual Property, Licensing & Information Law
Why are free and open sources licenses different?
Millions of dollars and thousands of hours have been spent during the last decade worrying about how to deal with free and open source software licenses. This leads me to…
New Media and Technology Law Blog
Jury Picked and Trial Commences in SCO v. Novell UNIX Code Copyright Ownership Dispute
The back story to the dispute between The SCO Group and Novell, Inc., over the ownership of copyrights to UNIX source code is lengthy indeed. But we'll spare you the…
DennisKennedy.Blog
Opening Up to Open Source – Podcast
New podcast on Open Source software.
New Media and Technology Law Blog
Landmark Open Source Lawsuit Ends with Settlement
A dispute between a proprietary software company and the Java Model Railroad Interface (JMRI) open source project has ended with a settlement, the JRMI project announced on February 17. The…
CommLawBlog
FCC Changes Stance on Open-Source Security
We have nothing against open source software, the FCC said. Publish all the software you want - just so long as you don't disclose whatever an intruder needs to modify…