[ Thanks to Mick Oyer
for this link. ]
“You are probably hearing and reading more about the Linux
operating system these days and how it presents a challenge to
Microsoft’s dominance. You might even be among
the 35,000 people expected to show up at the LinuxWorld Expo in New
York next week, a trade show that used to be lucky to attract a few
thousand attendees several years ago.“When lawyers talk about Linux, the conversation inevitably
drifts to the open-source licensing scheme that distinguishes Linux
and other open-source software from closed-source programs like
those made by Microsoft. With the popularity of open-source
growing, businesses and their lawyers face new intellectual
property challenges.“What is open-source? The term refers generally to software
released under a variety of different public licenses including the
GNU general public license, often called the GPL, and the Mozilla
public license, among others…”