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Open source software raises copyright issues

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Centre Daily Times; By Lisa M. Brownlee 		Mail this story
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F/OSS is perhaps the most important development in the information technology world since the personal computer and the Internet. The Gartner Report predicted last April that by 2012 more than 90 percent of enterprises will use open source in direct or embedded forms. Essentially all businesses are running F/OSS; health care, financial services and manufacturing are three sectors experiencing particularly rapid growth of F/OSS use. Because IT personnel are able to download F/OSS (free), without budget approval, oftentimes management is completely unaware of the prevalence of F/OSS on their company’s systems.

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Comments (4)

vainrveenr ·
Besides Pennsylvania, can anyone guess without reading the end, what other U.S. state the author of this piece is licensed to practice in ?

Okay, giveaway hint here: its a Pacific Northwest state, host to a certain company that continues to clandestinely attempt to bury F/OSS.

Possible shill alert on the author of this piece ? Insights from lawyer colleague, Grokaw's PJ, on her ?
gus3 ·
Hmmm, you said "clandestinely," so that rules out Microsoft. They (well, Gates, Ballmer, and Mundie, at least) want to bury F/OSS, and they don't care who knows.
jacog ·
Ballmer wants to bury it in chairs.
hkwint ·
Well, I can't think of a FOSS hostile company in Brittish Columbia.

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