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Open Source
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Open Niche Publishing by Lawyers Likely to Prevail Over Paywalls
Microsoft’s president and vice-chair, Brad Smith was the first person who explained open source software as a viable business product in a way I could understand it. Until then I…
Internet, IT & e-Discovery Blog
Cybercriminals are targeting Supply Chain Open Source!
By Peter Vogel
ReversingLabs.com posted a White Paper that stated that “Hackers are rational actors; they want to accomplish their goals using the least amount of effort possible. Attacking proprietary applications can be…
New Media and Technology Law Blog
GPL Open Source Litigation Could Open the Door to Other Suits
In today’s digital age, the question isn’t whether there is open source software being used in a company’s products, but how it is being used and what license governs its…
Internet, IT & e-Discovery
SaaS, Serverless, & Open Source – a winning combination!
By Peter Vogel
McKinsey.com reported that “To make SaaS, serverless, and open source work for new businesses, incumbent companies must completely rethink their IT strategy, redesign processes, embed new approaches and mindsets, redesign…
IP Intelligence
Podcast: Open Source is Everywhere: A Primer for Compliance
Despite the fact that open source or so-called “free” software has been available for more than 30 years, and is likely used in the vast majority of software programs being…
LawSites
John Tredennick On His New Company Merlin and the Magic of Open Source
By Bob Ambrogi
After Catalyst, the pioneering cloud-based e-discovery company he founded and spent 19 years building, sold last year to OpenText for $75 million, John Tredennick was not ready to sit back and rest on his…
The Privacy Hacker
The Trademark Fork in the Open Source Road
When open source developers call us asking to confirm that they can use the trademark or name of an open source project for their newly forked project, they do not…
Global IP & Technology Law Blog
Is The Use of Open Source Software Putting Your Business at Risk?
By Samuel Tibbetts, Squire Patton Boggs
A brief overview La propriété, c’est le vol! (roughly translated as “property is theft!”). Perhaps the most famous assertion of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, the French philosopher, considered by some to be…
Intellectual Property Law Blog
Open Source-ish! What Defines Open Source and Why it Really Matters in Investments and Acquisitions
By James Gatto, Yasamin Parsafar, Mark Patrick
The number of different open source licenses is growing and the variation in their terms and complexity is increasing. A number of licenses that appear to be, or are commonly…
Law of The Ledger
Open Source-ish! What Defines Open Source and Why it Really Matters in Investments and Acquisitions
By James Gatto, Mark Patrick, Yasamin Parsafar
The number of different open source licenses is growing and the variation in their terms and complexity is increasing. A number of licenses that appear to be, or are commonly…