Until September 20, 2007, nobody had ever sued anybody for violating the General Public License (GPL) — not a single company, project, or individual developer in the license's then-eighteen year existence.
Keir Thomas calls trademarks a menace to open source, but Joe Brockmeier disagrees. When used properly, he says, trademarks, like copyright, are a handy tool to protect and promote open-source projects.
  The Finnish research project "Managing OSS As an Integrated Part of Business (OSSI)" (2005-2007) developed a management framework by examining the phenomena from the perspectives of sociology, technology and business. The business perspective was examined further in the research...
 
 
 
 
 
