Tag: open source
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Open Source software protected under copyright law
A recent US federal appeals court ruling ( which overrules a previous lower court ruling ), has indicated that open source software now has the same protection under copyright law as other content. It’s quite interesting that the Business Software Alliance ( BSA ), which in the past has been the watchdog for such commercial…
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Software design strategies
Open Source and its community-based development model is starting to give some in the commercial world a bit of a headache. You’ll remember that I’ve blogged about the fact that I think all software development will go the OS-type way in future and it seems this is happening already. We’ve already seen behemoths like Microsoft…
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South Africans apparently don’t understand OSS
Well that’s according to one of the largest commercial software vendors on the planet – Microsoft. I wonder where they get this drivel from? Maybe from the fact that they’re fighting a losing battle with OSS and need to try and grab any last share of support they can. Perhaps they thought that coming to…
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