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Developers and IT staff love open source software, but when they try to use open source at work they often find that their manager, or their manager’s manager, has a lot of concerns. In this article we’ll outline strategies you can use to convince your manager to use open source software, along with tips on how to make those strategies effective.
Remember those New Year’s resolutions? We know, it happens to us every year as well. There’s always next year. Do yourself a big, huge, legal favor this year and read the final 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.
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.
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.
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.
A close look at the way the elements of open source development, acquisition and maintenance are effecting broad changes in the industry…
The OpenLogic Certified Library includes hundreds of projects and over 225 different licenses, most of which are based — at least loosely — on one of the 18 most commonly used license types. We’ve laid out for you in table form a detailed comparison of the common features of these licenses.
Figuring out the licensing terms of the open source gadget you’d like to use in in the widget you’re prototyping (and hope to offer for sale next quarter) is not as difficult as, say, absorbing the details of evolutionary biology, but neither is it a guaranteed walk in the park. In other words, it’s not dreadfully difficult, but often…