Open source stands up for its rights

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Sep 1, 2008 4:28 PM EDT
silicon.com; By Martin Brampton
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Intellectual property rights (IPR) are usually associated with large software or music companies. This impression can easily obscure the critical connection between open source and property rights. Just because software is given away, it does not mean all property rights are thrown out of the window. In fact IPR is critical to the health of the open source movement. Many open source developers are ill-equipped to deal with IPR but one who did tackle the issue was Robert Jacobsen, whose case against US company Kamind was recently decided in the US Appeal Court.

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