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4 Resources For Keeping Open Source Efforts Legal

You can never be too careful about the law if you’re working in the open source world.

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4 Resources For Keeping Open Source Efforts Legal

The Scoop on LibrePlanet: Interview with Deborah Nicholson of the FSF

The Free Software Foundation is gearing up for a big event March 19th through 21st to be held in Cambridge, Mass. at Harvard’s University Science Center. LibrePlanet 2010 is a three day event with workshops on using free software for everything from Web development to video editing and graphics

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The Scoop on LibrePlanet: Interview with Deborah Nicholson of the FSF

Document Freedom Day Coming March 31

Old documents never die, but sometimes they can’t be read.

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Document Freedom Day Coming March 31

Document Freedom Day Coming March 31

Old documents never die, but sometimes they can’t be read. Wednesday, March 31st, is Document Freedom Day — a day for groups all around the world to raise awareness about open document formats and open standards, and to ensure that no documents are left behind due to proprietary formats. DFD is celebrated every year on the last Wednesday in March

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Document Freedom Day Coming March 31

The Model Train Software Brouhaha Ends: Open Source Wins

Although some people viewed it as a tempest in a teapot, the long-running legal case Jacobsen v. Katzer stirred up some seminal open source issues. We first reported on the dust-up all the way back in August of 2008 , noting that the dispute centered around–of all things–model train software

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The Model Train Software Brouhaha Ends: Open Source Wins