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Friday, July 1, 2011
Leading congressional proponents of strong privacy protections for consumers' personal information have recently introduced legislation that advances the debate in Congress regarding whether and how such increased protections should be implemented. As discussed below, these bills are quite broad in scope - covering online (and, under some of the bills...
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Monday, September 1, 2008
The pending, well-publicized patent dispute between Trend Micro, Inc. and Barracuda Networks, Inc. is a good recent example of the fact that open source software ("OSS"), and "free" software generally, is not free of legal risks, including risks of litigation. Rather, litigation is a commonplace occurrence regardless of software development model, and OSS...
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Thursday, May 1, 2008
The Open Source Software ("OSS") community was founded on the notion that any party can use, modify and further distribute OSS, so long as that party contributes back to the OSS community the human-readable "source code" of any changes/ enhancements made to the software. Unfortunately, the Free Software Foundation's ("FSF")1recent efforts to revise the...
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Friday, February 1, 2008
A "document format" (also known as a "file format") is a particular way to encode information for storage in a computer file.1Numerous document formats exist for encoding and storing the same type of information in word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and other document types. Such document formats can complement each other by offering different...
