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The Walls... of Jericho.... but there are two horns...

"The MPAA's "University Toolkit" (a piece of monitoring software that universities are being asked to install on their networks to spy on students' communications) has been taken down, due to copyright violations."

"One of the things that everybody now understands is that you can treat software as a renewable, natural resource. You can treat software like forest products or fish in the sea." I wish more people shared the same view towards music

Reports From the Legal Side of the Free Software Movement

Printer friendly page Print Comment on this article Comments Joomla! project leader Louis Landry and his colleagues want to protect the project they love. That's why, after two years of allowing proprietary plugins for the open source CMS, the group has d

Enderle, formerly a high-level analyst with Forrester and Giga Information Group, basically downplays the M$ threat, chides mainstream media for overplaying it and offers some out-of-hand indemnification advice

Reader gbulmash sends us to his essay on the fallacy of those who would abolish copyright. The argument is that without copyright granting an author the right to set licensing terms for his/her work, the GPL could not be enforced. The essay concludes that

A careful examination of Microsoft's Patent Pledge for Non-Compensated Developers reveals that it has little value. The patent covenant only applies to software that you develop at home and keep for yourself; the promises don't extend to others when you d