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Internet Law Part II: Patent, Trademark and Trade Secret Law

By Mark Radcliffe • Feb 18th, 2009 • Category: Articles

Broken those New Year’s resolutions yet? Well, we didn’t really care about them anyway, except for the one on Copyright Law we assigned you last month. Do yourself a big, huge, legal favor this year and read the second article in our three part series on Internet Law. Seriously, don’t get caught messing with the top four major intellectual property laws in the United States.



Internet Law Part I: Copyright Law

By Mark Radcliffe • Jan 29th, 2009 • Category: Articles

Broken your New Year’s resolutions yet? We’ve got a new one for you, and it’s much easier to keep than anything having to do with Physical Fitness. Do yourself a big, huge, legal favor this year and read the first article in our three part series on Internet Law. Seriously, don’t get caught messing with the top four major intellectual property laws in the United States.



Open Source Alternatives for the Office

By Dru Lavigne • Jan 22nd, 2009 • Category: Articles

Microsoft Office has been one of the most popular (and profitable) business software suites for many years, but Office is no longer the only game in town when it comes to basic business applications. In this article we’ll gauge how OpenOffice 3.0, Evolution, and GnuCash stack up to Microsoft Office 2007.



Top Ten Open Source Legal Issues for 2008

By Mark Radcliffe • Jan 14th, 2009 • Category: Articles

2007 was the one of the most active years for legal developments in the history of free and open source, and 2008 saw a continuation of important legal developments. Here’s our list of the top ten FOSS legal developments in 2008.



The Open Source Model Really IS a New Software Paradigm

By Mark Radcliffe • Dec 30th, 2008 • Category: Articles

A close look at the way the elements of open source development, acquisition and maintenance are effecting broad changes in the industry…



The Six Elements of Open Source Governance

By Kimberly McClintock • Dec 19th, 2008 • Category: Articles

No kidding, we’ve boiled it down to six – Six Elements of Open Source Governance laid out and discussed right here. Everything you need to know in a few thousand printable, portable, highlightable words about open source policies, managing inventory, provisioning, scanning, reporting, and more.



JBoss 5 is GA

By Veljko Krunic • Dec 18th, 2008 • Category: Articles

JBoss released JBoss 5 GA on December 5th, 2008. Pretty exciting stuff…



MySQL 5.1 is GA

By Freddy Andersen • Dec 9th, 2008 • Category: Articles

MySQL 5.1 GA has been released with a number of new features and performance enhancements…



Python Takes A Great Step Forward: Python 3

By Devon Jones • Dec 8th, 2008 • Category: Articles

Last week saw the release of a major revision to the Python language in the form of Python 3. The 3.0 release comes with a slew of updates to the standard library, changes in syntax and other requested improvements. If one thing can be said about the 3.0 release, it’s that…