Focus (Forum & Focus)
Aug. 16, 2008
The Best Things in Life are Free - But Still Protected
This week's federal appellate court decision provided a very significant victory for the open source industry, writes Mark Radcliffe. - Forum Column
By Mark Radcliffe
This article appears on Page 6
On Aug. 13, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued its decision in the Jacobsen v. Katzer case, which provided a very significant victory for the open source industry by overturning the district court decision. Although the use of open source software has become ubiquitous (Gartner in a recent report estimated that by 2012, ...
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