( eat the source code as the crown jewels...)Open source software -- Managing the legal risks

eat the source code as the crown jewels of their business. A new perspective emerged in the 1980s, when Richard Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation and published a manifesto that expressed his anti-copyright ideology (which he called "copyleft"). He began to develop the high-level elements of a Unix-compatible operating system that would be "open" for all users.

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Source:wistechnology.com By Richard Marcus 09/28/05


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